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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1950)
pngr 2 Thr SrnMavl, Cottage <«n»vr, Oregon Thur*, July 18. HMM* Published Every Thursday at Cottage Grove, Oragon Established August 15, 1889 Subscription rates, cash in advance. No subscript ion for less than three months. 1 Yr. 6 .Mos. 3 Mos. In Lano ami Douglas Counties ----- ....2.50 1 50 1.00, Outside'This District .............. ............ 1..3.00 1.75 1.50 Foreign rates on application. W. C. M ARTIN.... .................. -.......................... Editor. Ihtblisher Mttw ftrovr >nitmr! l’a -V K Kenneth CuRhman ortena Martin Mr* Mjnwn Adkins Managing IMItor Advertignc Manager tka tety KOttor. Ptomaa MIT. 555. 5M Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. NATIONAL EDITORIAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION N' Fl I to prevent the outright junking of I the JOjUMI.iMHi plant Fortunately, We are approaching a time, it seems to us when times it was not milk'd but was leased and events will l>e a little more uncertain and trying to out to |xs>ple who mo tolerating al guess future developments will be quite a task; not that least a part of it. trying to live during the past four or five*years, which has The blow to our ruNx'r supply been more or less of an armistice, has been pleasant. We may will not Udi lor awhile 11 mi ;ht not tall at all We have time Io as well face thV situation and make the best of whatever get ready for it. The gvive’imem hap|*ens to be our lot. should piixeed at once Io git the There are lots of wild guesses as to what the Koivan Wond-MUifUr alcohol poxse. |x t outlook may involve, just as there have Ixvn predictions as fected mid operating m the one to how long goial times will last and when we may ex|<cet plant Then plans for quick eon struct ion ot othei plants, based another depression You will i call that the foretasters have ui»n the exp rienee at Springlieid been just as bad off in trying to guess the outcome of an should lx1 m.ide ready lor quick election. action. I hive already started 'o haunt World War 11 is comparatively fresh in the minds of most |H*ople. And most of us can recall the dark (»erioda of the oHms of the d«4ense puH-ure- ment people mid the resource-, the recent conflict and rememlier the op|h>rtunities the public board urging such a program. • • • hud to get panicky. With a tew exceptions, facing realities DAIS OF I \( ERT UNTIES was not as bad as we feared and nobody went hungry. Our ability to face any national crisis depends ti|>on THIS IS THE BIG WEEK whether we can make quick adjustments to new situations as The only things missing are the tage coaches. Otherwise, they arise. After all this is pretty much a problem we all visitors to Cottage Grove would think they were in a frontier face in normal civilian life. If we can meet one. we should town of the 1870 s. We have all the trappings sheriff, vigi be able to meet another. lantes, jail house (although chicken wire isn't very strong). s’X-shooters, and cowboys (for a week) roaming the streets. “As we face our problems today and consider theii Some cities look forward to the coming of the circus nature we measure the severity of those problems with the every year, others anticipate their annual music festival or degree that we have drifted away from the simple principles water pageant, but here in Cottage Grove we all eagerly with which we began. We can recognize the dugive we have await Rodeo Week. While other towns are content with one changed when the definition of a liberal is a man in Washing annual headline attraction, we have two—both top-notch ton who wants to play the Almighty with our money."— entertainment. Dwight G. Eisenhower, President, Columbia University. Cowboys and broncos will be in the spotlight Saturday and Sunday afternoons when the fourth annual Cottagi “The man who lets well enough alone is making success Grove Rodeo is held at the rodeo arena south of town. Like airer for some other num who d'H-sn't. Luke McLuke. the oak from the little acorn, this attraction is growing into one of the largest and most popular of the annual events in balcony expired. The president re» fused to reappoint any of tlic lour, this area. replacing them with new mem After dark Saturday and Sunday evenings, the pageant bers. of Indian lore, “The Chieftains', will be staged under the • • • By Harris Ellsworth direction of Robert S. Drenner. A visit out to Horn's Grove Representative. 4th District Robert L. McCormick, research last week showed us that things are shaping up nicely out After many months of discus tireetpr of the Citizens Commit there. A wooden stage has been built out from shore and we sion. the house ways and means tee for the Hoover Report, says is very much op had to watch our step while strolling along the bank lest we committee produced a tax hill. It lis organization to two of President Tru trip over some prop or piece of scenery. An added feature reduces a number of the more ir posed man's latest pro|»sals for reor- this year will be large water lilies which rise from under the ritating "war excise” taxes. To pmization of Die executive de up for revenue thus elimin partments. McCormick was assist water and pop open. (We couldn't find out how they make ated. the committee |>rov ided for int to Herbert Hoover during the worked.) some additional taxation, the operation of the reorganization To our visitors, we say, “Welcome!” heavy burden of which will fall on To Cottage Grove folk, we say, "Enjoy yourselves.” large corj»rate incomes. There is committee. McCormick declared that the And to everyone within hearing distance, we let out with little doubt that the bill will pass President's two recent proposals both house and senate and be regarding the Reconstruction Fi a loud, “YIPPEE!”—K.C. signed by the President. It should Washington Letter ABDI T FARM PROSPERITY For a while this year it looked as though at least one economic axiom no longer held true: the one that says nei ther fanners nor city folk can prosper long separately. Ac cording to winter and spring forecasts by many economists. 1950 was to be a year of depression for the farmer, of con tinuing good times for his city cousin. It doesn't look tliat way today. Unless the Korean war throws the entire econ omy 9^1 of whack, farm folk will have prosperity this yeai too. Overall national figures show a dip in farm income to date, but the trend appears to have turned up again. Agricultural economists are now predicting that the Department of Agriculture will have to revise earlier esti mates that 1950 rural farm income would sink 17 per cent below 1949 levels. In Indiana—a typical corn-hog-cattle pro ducing area in the great midwest “breadbasket region"— farm equipment sales (a good barometer to farm prosperity) are definitely on the upgrade. One dealer reported an 80 per cent sales gain in May over the same month of 1949. Good volume for tractors, com planters, and similar machinery was also maintained all through June. “Farmers seem to have changed their minds about conditions,” says this dealer. "I don't know whether it’s fear or inflation, or the war scare, or what it is. But they’re coming in and laying down the cash.” That this is no isolated case seems evident from the fol lowing summary of the situation by Iowa State College: “A boomlet ... a dose of mild inflation . . . the outlook is good.” ii HOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT LOBBYISTS? lobbying-*-real and alleged—is in the headlines. As usual, it is being used to buttress the political drive to fur ther control industry, and to place barriers in the way of free speech and the free press. However, there is one phase of lobbying w'hich the poli ticians avoid like the plague—and that is the propaganda fed to the people by government officials and bureaus. In a fine editorial, the Wisconsin State Journal said, “There are more than 3500 Federal employes—who cost tax payers more than a million dollars a month—engaged in sell ing and lobbying for and stirring’ up support for the pro grams wanted—not by the people—but by department heads and Mr. Truman. . . . “Congressman Vorys points out one great danger in this tax-supported Federal lobby: ‘Whether the immediate purpose of government propaganda is good or bad, the fact remains that individual liberty and free institutions cannot long survive when the vast power of government may be marshaled against the people to perpetuate a given policy or a particular group of officeholders’.” The lobbyists who represent industry, agriculture, labor- unions and other institutions must register and make peri- □diq reports to the government. But the lobbyists within the government are free of all restraints. They are an insidious and dangerous influence—and all of us are forced to pay their salaries and expenses. If Congress is going to look into lobbying, how about starting with the department heads and the bureaucratic trained seals? AIN’T IT THE TRUTH? EVERETT, PA., REPUBLICAN: “The thing that has for a long time kept the electorate behind the planners and the sjieechmakers has ben the promise of gain without work —of something for nothing. It is nothing more than just a promise. Westerners are told that they will have new power plants, new irrigation systems and so on, all free at govern ment ex|iense. Farmers are given heavy subsidies, all free it government expense. New and beautiful highways, air- ports, harbors, and so on become realities, all free at govern ment exj>ense. The unemployed are given relief and the aged are supported. Veterans receive huge benefits, all free at gov- enunent expense. It’s wonderful. But not one penny of it is free.” “To be born a gentleman is an accident, but to die one is an achievement.”—H. P. Kaye. “Common sense is genius in homespun.—A. H. Johnson. nance Corporation and the crea be noted that this tax bill does not tion of a department of health, actually reduce or eliminate taxes education and security are "in it will raise substantially the conflict with the recommendations same amount of money as is being of the Hoover Commission.” levied now. The new bill shifts the The President wants the RFC places from which tax collections transferred to the Commerce De are being made and it vv ill seem partment. The Hoover Commis- like a mild relief. But the ix'oplc. ion said the RFC should be trans the consumers, will continue to ferred to the jurisdiction of thr pay the taxes indirectly. freasury Iiepurtment. • • • • Tlic reorganization plan creat- When the appnipriat'ons bib i ig a department of health, educa finally completed by the sci.a t tor! and security also is "at vari- and cleared through co.uc:cn<i ince” with I loover Commission and final passage by both bon es, recommendations. McCormick said I believe it will co itam some real that the President’s plan would ly good news for the jicople at put the health service under the Charleston on Coos Bay. .Mean jurisdiction of the social security while. I am able to report that the administrator, while the Hoover engineers anticipate the availabil Commission urged that the health ity of funds for beginning work on service be set up as an indepen that project soon after the middle dent United Medical Administra of July, and are even now com tion, taking in the medical activi pleting plans and designs for the ties of the aimed services and the bulkheads and some other con veterans’ administration. struction there. When I visit Charleston and Coos Bay this fall. Once again we face the possibil I shall enjoy telling the whole ity that our normal supply of rather involved stoby of our strug natural rubtier will lx? shut off. gle to secure this appropriation. This blow will not fall immediate • • • ly, if at all, but we cannot ignore There is a saying to the effect the fact that when and if the com that an elephant never forgets. munists control Southeastern Asia Apparently the democratic donkey including Malaya we will be has a long memory too. Two years back to the synthetic rubtier days ago President Truman decided he We learned before that the loss wanted a balcony on the south portico of the White House. The of our rubber supply was not in Truman plan to change the archi tensely serious. We quickly learn tecture of the White House was ed to produce enough very good presented to the federal fine arts synthetic rubber. There was only commission, composed of nation lone big defect in our synthetic ally-known and qualified cxixrts tubber program during World War in art, architectural and engineer II-alcohol, the essential ingredient ing fields. The commission unani of synthetic, was made from fexxi mously disapproved of a balcony products including grain, sugar being located in the middle of the cane and potatoes. Food products south portico of the White House. also tend to become scarce wh< n White House officials made no we are at war. The real answer, and ithe om secret that the President was plenty ’-burned” over the Commis finally arrived at by the war Pro sion’s decision and, disregarding duction Board, is to produce the the advice of the experts, went needl'd alcohol from wixxl waste ahead and had the balcony made a sawdust from our western mills. [»art of the White House, already But with the same care-free abon- crumbling from old age and decay. don that characterized many other Since then a major repair job has acts during that period, the Ixiyish been started on the executive I optimists heading our federal gov- i emment dumped the Springfield mansion. This yveek the terms of four plant into “surplus” as soon as the members of the fine arts commis war was over. Some of us here in sion who op[»sed the President's Washington did some hard battling THE MONTH OF Not long ago Senator Chavez, chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Works, told a press as soeiatkm repirter that as soon as the Senate had acted upon the appropriation bill he would seh.-d ule healings in the West on IA X Upon making formal inquiry a few lavs later. I h-arni-d that the com mittee had not taken any action on the Subject anil I was sllbse- (Uently told that there would I ' no UVA hearing in Oregon and Washington this year. • • • When the term of the special New York I’ourt Grand Jury cv puxxi June 15th. it issued a lengthy and exeredingly Interesting state ment. Distorted by left-wing and pro-administration columnists and commentators, this document never did receive the public con sideration it deserves. Its recom mendation number ti is es|»ctally worth attention, so I quote it here “6. The ¿rand Jury is not con vinced that the loyalty boards establishixl by the government ar sufficient protection against infil tration of communists or of the communist-inspired into govern mental departments "It is further convinced that th security of the country is not ad< quately protected if a loyalty board limits its inquiry involving governmental employes to a d< termination of the individual’s loyalty. Cornelius Vandcibilt Whitney, on his retirement as Si i . retary of Cbmrat roe, called public attention to this inadequacy and stated that, since all governmen tal departments "today deal with wcrct information." each and all their employes should be go d security risks, and la-nce shou’.i be screened by standard, tli i in clude "the company they keep and stability of iharactei.” "The grand jury endorses Mr Whitney's position and nnini- mends that congress study means to insure against the government's employment of any individual wh" is "a pt»r security risk;" and mi anwhile ntx-ats that no citizen is invested with the right to work in government.” Military action in Korea has blanked out almost all otRer topics! ot conversation here since the Mid den move of the Commnni' Is i backed bv Russia». Shel l I) at ti l lin' news broke a pre isa upteil I louse ol Representatives passed the extension of Seleelive Seivice lor another vear with i.nl} (our dissenting votes The tax bill also was ivissed by an overw helming majority. If the military siiuarion Ix'Comes inure scrioii Hie Senate in.iv pigeon hole the t ix hill which calls tor re|x- d or reduction of numerous war < xci <■ t.ixe ♦ • • The tiouhlc in Korea is a me • of our ow n making The tact I ti ll the United Nations < h ranizalion .-ndorsed our errors docs not |c . sen our |•es|M>nsibihl,v. Hen', verv briefly, is the Kon an lorv Until hlH'l’.atcd b> the ih'tcat of Jap ill ill Will Id War II. the Koreans had suffenxl III years ol Japanese oppn ssion In th Cairo Conlerence in PH3, it was aereed iH-tween the United Stales, Gn at Britain and China that Korea should be reestablished is a free and mde|>eni|ent eounlrv 'Hus agri ement w as approvcil l>y Ku- SI I ill the Potsdam dcclaiafi II id July Ihl'i Thal iig'lcement has never Ix'en altered or quest min d it has simply lxs-n violated by Russia at every turn of events We have only feebly protested the various Russian moves For convenience on V .1 Day, an imaginary Inn- vv.e diawn on the map ol Korea nt the JMHi p.ir illel North of that line Ilie Russians hx>k the Nurtrnder of the Japan ese South of that line the la; siirn'ndcrcd to our forces rimt was how and why Ilie line w i drawn It was never a division of the country which was by agre< ment to lx- liberated and have its inde|x-ndi uco. But ti e Russia' < i upied the northern section and e died it then ' ■ m I h . (UBCtl to cixipctate in any way toward unifying Korea The ituO on 1» came almost an exact dtipli ate of the situation in Germany which was also set up at Potsdam. Instead ol our insisting that the i riginal intent ol the big |x>wi r regarding Korea be - tried out, we crawled away from our ae cepted re qx>i>sib:lity We set alout to form a sepaiale country > f the southern half of the country 'll» Rebuplic of Korea ithe territory south rtf the JKth par illel» w i formally) formed Di'ccmtx-r 12. !*M8 ft was recognized by oiir government on January 1 and xhi ’tly thereafter by most of the tim'd Nation memlx't ■ Mem whih'. the Rus ian govcrnmeni had ordereu 'he iron curtain drop|xd at the .’b 'h parallel. If the surprl-. move by force is sueeisftd in Korea I think we may exfiect a similar operation in Germany It may !«• that the Korea affair is a rehearsal and a trnd balloon to test our attitude and our stn ngth Regardless of how it got thnt way, we face n very scriou. iltl i ‘ Safety Tips for Soie Living IN OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK, July 23 29, a halt million 4 H Cluu boy« «ml a''1' P ‘1"* ou* turn ly <<<»'• »"d don't'« for tfle llvlnq. Safety 1« then N< t C o It is < ■ ' Aerk « ye >r farm «nd home ««fety program dn o t I by the C ’ vr f «ten«lon Service. Oener«l Mat. r« honors the > H ei» annually with county, atata and national award* valued at IW.U’0. U in Wc now must go down thr hard read Imt then- is no alterna live now. w. threw away mu op I» luniiy to do Ihuig-. right ani One thing dx nt mir Asiatic ixdiiy tniuldcs me. I think wc an making anotin r grave cinir On Ilie K'rv m |x'nlnxula It Ls mn pdiey to help drive the ComiUU nisi governm-nt tnxqis Imek and icg.im territoiy they have taken by lince But. nt the s.mn tmir w. n,- n tiding the United St.’it' Seventh Fleet to Formo-O to pr. vent I he Ch illesi Natioiudilit.s gov ernment from fighting to regain territory taken by the ’'ommnnist' by force "The Seventh Fleet will s.» Hint this is done," »ay» Pn .1 dent Truman! It • cm« Io me lh> (Moplc of Asia are going Io h ■ iinph iHy lM'Wildcrc<l |.y this eon tmdietory action on our pat l
