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The Rentlnel, Cottage Grove, Oregon Cottage Grove Sentinel E»! ab Hah rd AufuM IS. 1AM Published every Thursday at Cottage Orow. Oregon nitrr-d at Cottan Qmvr Or-x-o u »»eond claw matter St-bwrt IM too rates, cask Io advance No «ubacrlpOoo tor I ms than ihrs» anonths. Letter From Wash ing ton President Ignores Law to Issue Steel Seizure Order by Harris Ellsworth Ks'prvsentative, Fourth District that he wants to establish his way AS THE LAW! Proceedings have been startl'd which will test the President's order in the courts. If the Supreme In the avalanche of words which the presidential Court upholds his order, the broadest ixixsible pow W. C. Martin . Editor, Publisher Orlena Martin Advertising Manager seizure of the steel plants touched off. facts have ers will be thereby vested in the President as con Miriam A<1 kina RocWy Editor. Phone» 555 M4, 501Y loan rialto ____ Managing Editor. Phone* 555. 550. sUt been obscured and tin* deadly implications of the stitutional. That situation could only be changed by act have been generally overlooked. a constitutional amendment. The congress could not It is the first time in our history that a president correct it by law, If and when the court ratifies NATIONAL EDITORIAL has ignored and refused to administer a s|»ecific such broad constitutional powers we will then be in PUBLISHERS law, choosing instead to issue an executive order almost exactly the same position Germany and ASSOCIATION based only on undefined "inherent' power! of theG^ German Reichstag faced when Hitler became 1 the dictator of Germany by issuing a series of exec- president. When congress passed the “Labor Management utive orders which the German constitution gave Relations Act of 1947" it anticipated the situation him the power to do. I which developed in the steel industry several w<*eks I For the sake of uniformity, we hope the time muddle will ago section 206 of the. act logins Whenever in Am I merely seeing bogles? Am I TXX) agitated presented in the possibilities outlined Boon be settled in Oregon. And after the issue is settled, the the opinion of the President of the United States, a by . the . danger , . nation ought to adopt some sort of uniform time without threatened or actual strike or lock-out affecting •bow I do not think so. and here lx why : Although having to fiddle with the clock. Personally we think the war- an entire ¡„dustry or a substantial nut thereof en-**“ b> «'•«ure <w*r. its full meaning time emergency, which was the cause of adoption of a new in trade, commerce, trantportation, trans-1®0 #,nke hon* U",u a fe* a**’ ,““‘r wh<’n lhc time is no is excuse now. now. In fact that if the if issue nnSswn mission, or communication among among the several 1 rcsidcnt. ,n n‘i’lv ’° “ ‘M”*’ ‘iiwutton as to vheth- time no excuse in we tact believe we believe that the issue or communication the i--------- were put to the voters of the various states in a form that states or with foreign nations, or engaged in the . er or not he could seize newspapers and radio sta- the voters would understand, they would ban running up the production of goods for commerce. will, if permitted (ions, clearly indicated that ho considered he had such power if, In Ms opinion such action was neces clock. to occur or to continue, imperil the national health sary for the good of the country. He made this and thereafter the full The question of getting up an hour earlier ought to be or safety, he may . . left up to the individual localities it seems to us. If the busi legal procedure for meeting the situation without a answer in spite of the fact that such an act is ness houses want to open an hour early, they could open at work stoppage is carefully spelled out in the law. specifically tarred by the Constitution. Note the reference to "his opinion". The essence 8 a.m. instead of at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. instead of 6 The President has used these provisions of law Estimated Federal expenditures for 1953, under President Truman's proposed budget, would equal th« p.m. The same rule could apply to the mill workers, the farm successfully at least twelve times previously. He of our «ice system of government is government Incomes of all petsons west of the Mississippi (the darkened area), according to National Aseoclation of by laws wr.iten by the elected representatives of the ers and others. In this way nobody would be forced to work could and should have used this law this time. Manufacturer's estimates. This Is a black picture, Indeed, for the American People. The tremendous Why did Truman go outside the law? That is the people. We cannot tolerate government by opinion early or late to conform to prevailing time. Increase In Federal spending is realited when It Is understood that In 1929 the spending amounted to less Oregon’s daylight saving law is “impossible and repre serious question. I heard his explanation given in or personal edict. We revolted from that long ago. than two-thirds of the income of those people living in California. hensible.” according to T. Lawson McCall, news commenta his radio speech but it was no explanation or reason The congress should now act to crack down on tor, who spoke to a group of 200 Republicans at a meeting at ■ior his action at all. He said in effect that he did the attitude of mind so clearly revealed by Mr. Rose City Park School in Portland Saturday night. ‘The not use the law which requires a total of 80 days Truman. Such a tendency toward government by question of whether we should have daylight saving time waiting time because the dispute had already been men rather than government by law should be should be decided by the people,” said McCall, “and the Roing on more than 100 days. That fact had nothing dealt with immediately. These are the reasons why I have publicly stated that the congress should resent buck’ to the governor, should to do with tlx’ application of the law resent law which passes the buck <'«>tt¿|gr <ifOVr llowpltill impeachment proceedings. Resolutions for ^o ,l"' Editor: • ■ — the books. No matter which ... w-ay the -- e taken off governor Why. then. DID the President ignore a law consider purpose, which I shall support, have been in- I * approach with reluctance My may decide on the daylight saving issue in any given year, he passed by congress and proven by us. ? Why did he this SHEPARD • To Mr. an Mrs. | troduced in the House of Representatives. I Annu“1 Task Nut ,ha' * dread he is going to antagonize some of the voters of the state, make his own law? I think the obvious answer is ¡ the work connected with it, but Raymond Sh<’[>ard, Cottage Grove, ! The wording of the law itself, according to McCall, neces- rather the fact that tls* task ! a son, Stephen Mikal, April 23, itself may not I m * done as I would j 1952. sarily “forces a conscientious man into the untenable position wish to do it. This is a trust in which Governor McKay now finds himself.” FREED - To Mr. and Mrs. Ken handed down to me, thru three generations, you might say. as neth Freed. Cottage Grove, a son, It is doubtful if any great government or system 1 ington. Not long ago an Office of Price Adminis- my grandfather, J. C. (Charlie) Lloyd L-ce, April 24, 1952. - .. .. . . .. ■ ■ . •, of government has ever undergone a greater tration attorney was arrested in one of the D. C. Stouffer, a pioneer Mason of tin HASS - To Mr. and Mrs. Wayne tbe biggest improv ement* SO far as downtown gtra,n our own country is now experiencing, parks while trying out a slingshot. He told the Cottage Grove community, was « daughter, Mary _ .. J S X A i * *~ J A—A A H V. A ~ . — „ —. A A l. AAA KK* A MA A. ■ H A MW— intact. But here there is no violence, court he was testing it for the manufacturer who one of that litth- band of early Ha**- and Mam Pedestnans however, must become accustomed of and no ,nd,cat,on that the wanted the item decontrolled. I might add that pioneers who conceived the idea Anile, April 21, 1951 to the lights soon, unless we are to avoid a bad accident. ^ant u anvthing m(W than anno>Pd We continue they have already decontrolled crepes suzette and of establishing a Masonic ceme- TRUNNELL - To Mr. and Mrs I tery. He journied to Portland, no Some apparently paid no attention to the bghts dunng the the trek into the future s powerful and con- walnut sauce. easy trip in those days, to visit Roy William Trunncll, Cottage first few days after the installation. Once the public gets fident. Why? Grove, a daughter, Sandra Ann, accustomed to the lights, they will mean less time lost and How can this be true in the face of our fighting Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire told the Riverview Cemetery, which la April 24, 1952. situatixi on hills overlooking the greater safety. a war that has no goal nor even an end in sight the Senate the other day that he had just compiled Willamette River. From this visit No. SUM CHILDERS . To Mr. and Mm and which is costing $5 billion a y ear? some figures on taxation. From the day the first came the decision to establish the Everett L. Childers, Drain, a How can our economy carry on with such health President of the United States took office until present Masonic-IOOF cemetery. daughter. Teresa Helen, April 25, and vigor when our communications systems are Harry Truman was sworn in 9s President on April now on the Western hills over- 1952. Two congressmen have come out in favor of impeaching partly paralyzed by strikes and the great steel in- 12, 1945, the Federal government had collected in looking the Lively valley in which President Truman for his seizure of the steel mills and for dustry is on the brink of nationalization—or the al- taxes from the American people a total of $244.- »»‘s'les the City of Uottage Grove MONROE - To Mr and Mm. k I I Ie n lu. . I I* J ■ 1 I u* 1 I . f. . . saying that he believed he had the constitutional rights to ternative, closure by a strike? 200,000.000. From the day Mr. Truman became It is a beautiful site for a cerne- Forest H. Monroe, Creswell, a son, _ > __ ..__ . ... __ , . »tery, worthy of care, but which Renay Alan, April 25. 1952. take over the newspapers and radio, if he saw fiL One con- gressman, George Bender of Ohio, proposes to impeach the When our present government administration •t- president until now .April 4. 1952!, seven years, al,, d(d not gct {or mnny >(>ar< Jn self staggers through its last months scandal ridden total of $310,463.056.589.59 has been collected. In ¡gg2 Mrs. Clara Burkholder CHRISTENSEN - To Mr. and president on the fact that he took over the steel mills. The and all but leaderless why is there no revolution, other words, this one president has collected more daughter of the cemetery foun Mm. Walter Christensen, Cottage other our own congressman. Harris Ellsworth, would remove taxes in seven years than did ALL of the other der, decided to xee that these Grove, a daughter, Kathryn Marie, violence and bloodshed? Truman because he is apparently power drunk and would physical grpunds were taken cure of. To April 26, 1952. With a pow-erful enemy ready to march against presidents in their one hundred and fifty years, not stop at seizing the steel mills, but would take over the us, with taxes nearing the point of confiscation. gether with C. A. Bartell, then • • • BIAS - To Mr. and Mm. Albert newspapers as well. with. inflation ready to strike and with a public All of the regular appropriations bills, except the proprietor of the Cottage Grove Bias, Cottage Grove, a top, Allan Congressman Ellsworth admits that this is a radical debt so great it surpasses understanding; we carry Agriculture. legislative and foreign aid bills, have hotel, anti Karl K. Mills, local remedy, but perhaps radical remedies ought to be used on on without panic and with what amounts to good been completed by the House with some eight bil- mortician, who had similar ideas, Dwayne, April 27, 1952. they organized the Cottage Grove radical situations. You would only have to look to our sister - To Mr. nnd Mrs. John lions chopped off the budget thus far. Cemetery association take N. Hayes. Cottage Grove, a son. South American republic, Argentina, to see what happens cheer. How do we do it? The House Foreign Affairs Committee is conduct charge of this work. Funds were The answers lie in two simple words: FAITH and Danny I .ce, April 30, 1952, when a president takes over as dictator and see how move FREEDOM. We are a Christian people. We believe ing hearings on the 7.9 billion foreign aid bill. The secured from the lot owners, and ments of a supposedly free people can be checked, even to Khnnda Clinic and I lu-pl tut that truth and right and goodness will prevail. With State Department propaganda mills are laying still are, since we have no other confiscating a great newspaper. You would not want to live the CANTWELL - To Mr, and Mm. minor individual exceptions which any of us down a barrage of material, in all fields of com source of revenue. Mrs. Burkhold in Argentina with its controlled economy. Neither would we, Handy, dsik-heighf fils munication, to the effect that "not one cent should er served as secretary of this as Richard L. Cantwell, Cottage and we surely ought to check any move to make us like might note, our basic code is the Golden Rule. Grove, a son, April 19, 1952. sociation from 1922 to 1935. the cabinet that rollt freely to be cut from the request." Yet the witnesses to date We are a free people. There is no sovereign Argentina. . . year liefore her death. Since 1925. end from your desk, wher against whom we might revolt. We rule ourselves. have not justified any such sum. The situation is The announcement that the president thought he had she wax assisted by her daughter, ballots select our officers and the representa the same as it was one year ago when ECA had a the present w'ritcr, who took over grass and vines cut, from alleys ever you want to ute it. Top the right to seize the press and radio created quite a lot of Our 5 billion carry-over, yet it was requesting 7.5 bil vacant spots which lielong to section for records and comment in our community as it undoubtedly did in thou tives who conduct the business of governing. With lion. As of January 31, 1952, there wax an unex this work alone in 1936 anti has and faith in the right, with our free ability to choose since conducted the annua! clean no one person, but to the ceme sands of other localities over the natioot . .5 bottom section for books pended balance of $9,617,152,042. The question that up. At fir^j a supervisor was hired tery ax a whole, nnd thus II is The idea of giving the president of a democracy that the right, and with the determination to exercise all members are asking is - with such a large un- and and supplies both under absolutely necessary to have funds men to do the work, but in kind of power “ain’t no joke son" and we had better wake up our rights as citizens, we have ample reason to expended balance on hand, why appropriate 7.9 the depression years, money be to do this work properly. NOW is separate locks and keys for look into the future hopefully. to the situation. billions more? I am sure the request will be re- came so scarce, that Mrs. Burk the time to contribute your share, complete ' privacy. Heavy holder took over the supervisory so that WE MAY HAVE A BEAU There is sometimes the lighter side here in Wash- duced, and it should be. gouge steel, olive green TIFUL CEMETERY FOR ME- work also, and this task is now handed down to me. Local lalsir MORIAL DAY. We begin work or Cole gray, 30%' high; You can’t buy friends. That simple truism is sometimes is hired, and it is xujiervixed by May 15th. We cannot do any lots Upper comportmont I3'A* for which wo are not paid in ad the writer in person. used as an argument against American aid to non-Com- V lait in g hour» Bl the foHacB Gmv» vance. We ask thnt you mail your munist countries. It might better be used to test motives and Thurman Sensing, of the Southern States Industrial HowpHal are a» follows: I am grateful to alt those who tow.r comportment lí’A* donations promptly so that we have so loyally supported "Our methods in any foreign-aid program. Council, recently wrote, “If freedom in a democratic country w<4o, 14* KfA, 24' doop can g<> ahead and hire the neces Annual Task” all thru these years, « hn Foster Dulles recently made the startling state means anything, it means that a man has the right to join a sary labor. and again appeal for their finan ment that the United States “is today less liked, more iso union if he so desires, but it also means that he cannot be Please mail contributions to lated, and more endangered than ever before in its history” forced to join a union before he can get a job and make a liv Patients entering the Cottage cial aid. We ask but $2 per lot Miss Belli* Burkholder, Secretary, a minimum charge, but with because the gifts made since World War II have not included ing for himself and his family—as in the closed shop. It Grove Hospital other than mater as labor costs at $1 per hour, we Cottage Grove Cemetery Axsn., “the spiritual values that count most.” Vast loans and grants should be just as clear that it also means that he cannot be nity cases between April 23 and 30 can devote but two hours work 225 N. Lane. have been made to other nations, said Mr. Dulles, not out of forced to join a union in order to keep a job and make a were: Jessie Gilcrist, Klamath on your lot, if you contribute but Falls; Donald Zottman of Empire; two dollars. We have also much compassion but because Americans have been told they had living for himself and his family—as in the union shop.” Two short railroads in Oregon to make them in order to achieve certain political objectives. Years ago some businesses forced workers to sign a Howard Sortor of Albany; Hilde general work to conduct, which is which carry passengers in gaso gard Whitman of Elmira; William indeed our main object, that we line powered coaches arc the Con The gifts have not carried a message of sympathy and paper in which they agreed not to join a union. This was good will, but rather expressions of annoyance, grumbling, called the “yellow dog contract,” and it represented an in L. Trayler, Max Meyers, Lynn must appeal to you for your sup don, Kinzua and Southern and the Davis, Velma Hoskins and Minnie port in this, too, since many lot Valley and Siletz, both which arc and carping criticism. The result is that we have not got defensible tyranny. Congress properly made the practice Sybrant, all of Drain; Herbert are gone or cannot tic lo thrilling rides for the Oregon visi what we bargained for. illegal, and so affirmed the right of a man to join a union if Crain of Lorane; Beatrice Cory of owners This may be overstating the case. We believe much good he sö chose. Today the shoe is simply on the other foot—the Creswell; Bernard Wanninger, cated, trash must be removed. tor. will has come through and much gratitude has been felt for pendulum has swung to the opposite extreme. Compulsory Gerald Powell, Nora Treadwell. American aid. A common free-world front has been built union membership is every bit as tyrannical, every bit as in Vera Parks, Merle Carpenter, against aggression. Yet the fact remains that too large a imical to the American tradition of individual freedom, as James Blackwell, Boone Hur^- phrey, Louisa I-echner, Gus Turn part of the world believes United States policy to be dictated the yellow dog contract. solely by fear of communism and to be relying solely on The unions’ job is to sell their services on their merits er, Baby Trunneil, Olive Lind strom, James Allen, Clara McDan material force. —just as any other service is sold. That is their right and iel, Howard Marfield and Bertha The answer, clearly, is not to stop giving aid where it their duty. If a worker thinks those services are worth their all of Cottage Grove; Ro is crucially needed and where the United States alone is in cost in dues, he'll join. That was the way the organized labor Roach, land Miller of Oakland; Zene Mc a position to help. It is to recognize the real needs of the movement was built, and the way it grew strong. To say that Nabb and I^eon Maupin of Yon nations—to understand that in some cases economic aid may a man must join or not join any organization in order to get calla. ài Oracnn Dut «Id« Oregon ....................................... Forwign rat« im appOcatum 400 Time Muddle Our Annual Task P New Lights We Remain Strong Because of Faith. Freedom Maybe a Radical Remedy Is Needed KEEP RECORDS HANDYI KEEP THEM SAFE! . COLE’S LOCK-ond-KEY PORTABLE FILE 41.95 You Can’t Buy Friends Iron Curtain Philosophy Hospital Patients COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Ph.555-556 be more urgent than military, that in others technical aid and keep a job is to urge dictatorship, Iron Curtain style. may be more needed than economic, that in many truthful That kind of thinking has no place in a free nation. information may be more important than technical knowhow, and that in all a generous faith in common humanity will be Bad Choice more welcome than guns and dollars offered as bribes. In this recognition enlightened self-interest and enlight Between Mike M. DeCicco, whose reputation is rather ened giving can meet.—Christian Science Monitor. unsavory, and Monroe Sweetland, an ardent fair dealer as candidates for democratic national committeemen, we believe Better Living there ought to be a reshuffle and a couple of new candidates. If some of the old timers of 50 years ago could be DeCicco is trying to ride in on the fact that he is against brought back to life, they would be amazed at the changes communism, as if this were any different from the ordinary that have occurred in the half century period, which make American view, and Sweetland leads one to believe that he for better living. They might also be amazed at the present would bend over backward to support every fair deal move ment of Truman, even if it meant seizure of the press and cost of government. The high school pupil can learn more now just by going radio. thru high school than they could 35 to 40 years ago, in going “The most important obstacle to government retrench away to school, to the normal, something like Drain had at one time. Then going away to a normal school was like going ment lies in the false philosophy that large government ex away to college, except the normal school taught little if any penditures are themselves an essential element in developing advance from the present high school. Then it was the three our economic progress and promoting the welfare of the people.”—John G. Forrest. R’s strictly with none of the present day equipment. Young people of today sorter shrug off tales of hard ships which the early day residents went thru. Not having “The essence of any Marxian system is compulsion; not experienced the early day hardships, most of the present the compulsion of circumstances, to which we must all yield, day generation have no conception of what early day life but the compulsion of government, which is harder to bear.” was like. —Los Angeles Times. Daily Bible School To Hold Open House The Week Day Bible school for grade school children conducted on a released time basis at the Presbyterian church will hold open house Tuesday and Thurs day, May 6 and 8. Mr. and Mrs. Don K. Smith, in structors, will conduct regular classes with parents and interest ed persons invited to attend. The religious education program here has been conducted for 25 years. A New York Supreme court just recently issued a ruling up holding the releaseo time program as a result of a test case brought by two mothers who objected to the program in that state. The school here is sponsored by a group of Protestant churches. Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, per haps, as much time as to conceive it.—Joseph Joubert »
