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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
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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
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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:
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— 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.
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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
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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. .
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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,
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»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
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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.
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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.
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Dut «Id« Oregon
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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! .
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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
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