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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.
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• 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
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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.
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•
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
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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