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~r ' PA <IÍ I SHBMkUX C O V K tï JOURNAL, P^ftlUa faaahl >*»»»«* ---- published IfiverylM day at Moro, _________ Oregon □ ¡ ¡ ¿ ¡ n r F r e n c h ............ ........ Editor o^__ i . . . r t 5ond £ S «MiUer at u* at Moro. ow on Act ° of March ■. 1ST»- < 4 s,r : , * T ION NATIONAL £ € DITORI DI AL L O C A T IO N iJ n fa g ^ r OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER ------ í r n s í RIPTÍON R A T fis ONK YEAR ........................... St-60 ------------ ------------------------------------ JU L Y 18, i» * ‘ M ARSH ALL PLA N W estern E uropean nations m et in PariZ th is w eek and hurriedly i £ r £ d to take the $5.000.000,000. ¿IOBO. OREGON U~- FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1MT county and state officials. F o r years gam bling has gone unham pered in Oregon because no one w anted to enforce the laws against it. It is a h a rd Job. W e have q u ite a bit of legal gam- fciing on dogs and horses and pin ball m achines. That, is, if th e con- stitu tio n is in terp reted w ith su f ficient liberality. It has alw ays been im possible to eith er enforce th e laws against gam bling o r to pass law s tax in g its profits. P erhaps stric te r en forcem ent w ould b ring about a change for th e better. If gam bling cannot be stopped it ought to be taxed as a m eans of control. At present it goes on ram pantly. pay‘" s "O t » e,thre r th e P*” lice or the tax gatherer. The rem ainder of the s ta te will, therefore, pay close a tte n tio n to the experim ent th a t is being tried in The Dalles to see If if 1) enforce- enforce ,n i n c i « c m ent is possible ai d the effeet on th e tow n and Its finances if it Is enforced. S t L S T W aki U p . A m ir ic a !" Heavy Rain Hits Wasco At End Of Hail Storm W W ffi Is Socialism Responsible for the British Crisis? M od erated by FREO O. C L A W C hairm an American economic fou n d a tio n V As Arhateï 6y Dr. O. Clenn Saxon Harry B arfield Craven fo r m e r P ar liant m t a ry C a n d id a t« o f th e B riiU h L abor P a r ty P r o f «»tor o f E conom ica, Yala lU tloeraity 4 MR. CRAVEN OPENS: "Il S ocialism to . th^ were responsibie for the uHeat Qf ChurchiU and the C onser- v a d v e party at the last general elec- tiOn. Lest this should be considered as too flippant an . aBSW«r.t I^wouid flippa lik e to out th>< h unting for a form of sport leads no. ^ her< Cre. , Brllain , )or ---------, » ith in tw o p ----------------------- art In tw o w orld w ars w decades. T he resu lts to their eco n e’ DRy SA ^ O N OPENS; T here can b b«' no possible doubt of the final respon- sib ility of the S ocialist G overnm ent in G reat Britain tor the m agnitude; o f the ex istin g crisis The doctrinaire^ planners in charge of B ritain ’s des-t tln ies have at last succeeded in plan-, n in g a once great nation and Empire* out of existence, England’s life force: is coal; b ui did the Socialists as long; •g o . . January, 1 , « . heed Mr J d to r ch iu -a plea t o r ' Increased re< A severe rain and hail storm lasting about ten m inutes hit W asoo at 2.20 p .m . Monday. The sto rm came from the southw est and continued in a n o rth erly di- rection. The heavy dow npour w as followed by th u n d er and lightning. L ightning stru ck east of h ere splintering several tele- _•____ anmp lines n u ttin e some lines J d PLight service was o u t ot o raer l g d isrupted for a short tim e, due to a h it on a tranform er. Loss of w h e a t is generally considered slig h t no to ta l losses have been reported. ' ' • M . M Ted p ro Udfoot and indv of Seattle w ere ¿» u g h tar Ju d y <rf S e u ttle w e r e w eekend visitors a t th e hom e of M rs Proudfoot s P* ,e • . ... Mrs J . T. Johnson A lso vlsl g at the Johnson hom e w ere th eir son and famUy, Mr an d Mrs Jo h n t . Johnson Jr. and daughters, Lee and Connie of Medford, Portland. Mr and Mrs Marion Crews who visited several days last week a t the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs F. M. Crews, left for tn eir home a t Stevenson, Wn., w here Mr Crews has taken a P"*1 on a8 m usic teacher in t e sc G1 W allace and ^ n retu rn ed last Saturday & ghQrt vacaUon trip to attended a f a n w reuniQn w lth about forty mem- family present. , R o n a ld 8. -Macnab j - - Administrator T Lesler Johnson,, ’ A ttorH ty for A$*BTiftt$ator 35 8c NOTICE o f FIN A L ~iven that eatrice L anphear Baker as ad- ~.in istra trix of the estate of Julia deceased, has filed her final acco u n t in said e8ta!^ County C ourt of the State of Oregon for Sherm an * said court has fix d_ the 6th day of A ugust J® 47« al ten a. m. of said day as ... u n i o’clock — -------. , NOTICE OF FIN A L AOCOl NT lhe tJme for hearing h e r e b y given th at to said final account and the set Notice is hereoy g u em ent thereof. On 6r before the undersigned fl^ J* 1 id day any person interested c o u n ty C ourt of the State of esU te m ay file objections gon for Sherm an County n gald final account or to any at Accunt and Report as thereof and contest the istrato r of the E state of same. G. Macnab, deceased, and th Dated Ju n e 20, 1947. 6th day o t Aug- ^ ' X a t o l c e L anphear Baker Wednesoay.^ A d m in is tr a tr ix dav’ at the Courtroom. In the A g Cooley • • j Moro, Sherm an A ttorney for A dm inistratrix courtnouse. in . County. Oregon have D e e n j--------- g0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOflOOO©OO®BO*!3<P5 It was not surprising. om y w ould have brought a less re serves ot coat? T hey did not: instead) T he very fact th at we offered W A TE R WITCHING* silien t nation to the ground. T he fact they hurried toward natlonalixaUon< they _______ refused to accept d efeat ot coal. land, com m unications, e t c . it indicates our defeat a t th e ¡t ls easy to u n d e rsta n d how that _______ Then, when to e <0.1 shortage b e c .m .! hands of Russia. Since San Fran- w ater w itches came to be. W hen saved the w orld including th e U.S.A. cisco we have been dedicated to n)an w anted to dig som eplace in Any J* b ^ tflib e a . w ould so acute that the nation's industry dow n, the feeb le explanation; the proposition tlxat th ere m u st the earth to get w ater he elt had hard siedding a corre- shut was that the w eather was bad. Nor be a w orld organization th a t in- absolutely helpless. W here could ,fpondent of The New York Times— have the S ocialists been any more, W eekend guests a t the hom e of eluded all nations. We helped es- it be? not exa ctly a le ft-w in g PaP® ^~P °in?* ^constructive in their handling of the M r and Mrs C. R. M orrison w ere U blish United N ations w ith th a t Now m an i8 a gregarious ani- ed out recently that e v «nrbody he m anpow er problem The cry is that th e ir son in law and daughter, to mind. N othing elee would do m al, and one w ho likes to settle . n / o t o ^ t o 7 n there are not enough m ine workers- M r and Mrs R. E. Glllmor, and for us. Now we propose a west- bis problem s over a big k e t t le o i present Labor governm ent w ould But the G overnm ent seem s to forget Mr and Mrs Bernard W arner, all ern block. conversation. F irs t phase of de- bave been faced w ith a revolutionary a man works w hen be has an lncen-< of Tigard. Mr and Mrs Clyde Gill- The m en who are in position cjding w here to p u t a well as to gituation. Socialism , .tn the Labor tive -to do so; the in centives are gone, roor of Moro and Don M arek of e nationalization and their place Is. being taken by an to be leaders of the nation seem ask some one. T he m ore people Party sense. Le.. “ ju s t as sure th a t we should go w h0 w ere also confused as to of certain essen ti Industries, long Increasing totalitarianism p lain ly ev l- S c o t ts Bluff, N ebraska w ere ! 1 ahead w ith th e M arshall plan as v/bere the digging should s ta rt grTtain’s" troubles. On the con- den t in the threat to re-introd uce <jay dinner guests. E vening call- stringent w artim e m anpow er co n - e r s w ere M r and M rs * Hferold th e y w ere th a t we should adhere in order to produce th e desired m oderate and ev o lu tio n - trola. There is a fam ous song to tha C hristensen o f The Dalles, to th e U nited N ations or th a t we w ater m erely Intensified th e pro- ary program has probably m ade pos- effect that Britona ’hever; n ever w ill and Mrg F te d H ennagin of n .u st uphold th e ten ets of the blem and m ade the relief g rea ter sib le a m iddle road to e be slave*. B ut not even the E nglish 5>n r tla n d ^ r e S aturday visitors ( • i W^gfiRJ T ru m an plan. The people, them - w ben some self confident m an thiiTcountry aad through- press any longer agree« The m age- nwenk Ijimborn selves, do not have sufficient in- ^ m e along to dig his heel d ram a-„ world are praying for the lin e “Tim e and Tide", n ever a sup- n e ™ - porter of C h u rc h ills party, recently: Mr a M . p o r t ian d form ation to Judge on any policy. t |cayy in th e e a rth and say “dig guccesg of w hat is probably th e last described the tragedy as follow s: w e re business visitors in P ortland P erhaps such inform ation would r | gbt h e re ”. chance to com bine the tw o democra t s helpful. W e are not—w e A w a te r w itch takes th e p a rt of cies - p olitical and econom ic — in a “T h e m echanism for the total d e - several days last week w orkable hum an system . I add my ? S T ta ta S M - Max WIIHam. r e t u r n ! hope—a nation to be led blindly tb e m edicine m an of ahorlgi- prayers to theirs, accom panied by a forever by Roosevelts, T rum ans nes in tb i8 one regard. O r did a heartfelt •‘cheerio.” happen 'h ere? ha, h a p p e n ^ , S u t o to y DR. SAXON CHALLENGES: The and M arshalls. few years ago. Now it is slightly MR. CRAVEN CHALLENGES: Qr. Bamfi retu rn ed about tw o w eeks The M arshall plan, latest thing different. W itches speak a langu- question , ------ of the responsibility of so- x o n ’s prophecy of doom sm ells to o ^ t h rep o rt seeing out. I. th a t th e U nited S tates age sllghtly ^ flo w e r e d w ith geo- £ > £ £ / « £ { ¡S tt'iJ U ^ l s n S m a uch of w ish fu l thinking. England’s a « o OUT t n e y tx t- arrlved . will loan (perhaps give would be loglc te rm s arfd n lS m ore im- ; Ctat-Ons, nor on the basis of past life force is not coal but the spirit o f a tot of w a te r s in c e a b e tte r word! m oney to Euro- pres8ive th an the m um bo-jum bo dlsastera. The’ S ocialist governm ent its people, w hich is indestructible. A s .t h e r e w hen the flood w as at n s pean nations to speed th eir econ- of grandfather s tim e, and even a must ^and on its ow n im m ediate an exam ple of “free en terprise.” th e p e a k . Mr and Mr8 Glenn Van G ilder om lc recovery. W e hope to keep little m ore confusing. - record which prove« coy 5 i ^ lv^ yt coal industry' has a m ost u n en viab le ‘ f Qf p o rtiand, ar- them from com m unism b y such . Men hate t0 ^dm it any belief J b u i V n r ^ w o r t ^ ’to B rita in ’s record. The on ly incentive offered to the m iners, by absentee ow ners, w as , a . r v __ r u dpr a n d generousity. If the plan ls sue- jn w ater w itching as was demon- wesdtk. To mee^, ^absenteeism the an alternative to starvation, as I can rived Sunday: cessful we will have a m arket g r a te d a t the • ouncll m eeting besl die government can do Is to re- testify. Now, the m iners have hope son retu rn ed to Portland nyt M fo r our exportable su rp lu s al- Tuesday night when five m ale garret m idw eek sports: to attem pt and. even tu ally, the m ines w ill b e v a n Gilder is staying to w ork in as efficiently, run as, the B ritish navy. h a r v e s t though we will have to foot the adultg paHSed th e buck in desul- vainly to m eet agree. B ritain faces a crisis sn4 bill. W hen the “ . get on tQry for an hour M ^ w h ’ S iTconUn'- needs our" help. Totalitarianism — Mr and Mrs R obert S w ett of th e ir feet it is hoped thev and a balf before m oving to hir^ ' ueJ t0 ^ vy confiscatory taxation, nonsense Forget the groans of the Dalles spent Sunday a t the have a stable governm ent th a t # w ater w itch to ap praise the kiaraM the individual, and m ultiply m agazines, tem porarily deprived o ’ * »<- c . r o t i ’o n a n h e iv and their r.-v en u w -rff you w ant to k a o w h o m e of Mr Sw ett s nephew ana will adhere to the United States dam pness of the inner depths of a peevish bureaucracy w hich mi»- what Engliand i , thinking, watch to , fam ily, Mr and Mrs Stanley Sw ett. and acorn *>e o ffe r, of th e com- the earth about th e outskirts of results of the bye-elections. O ther callers were Arehie S w ett m unists. the city. w uila the people go hungry and the o x SA XO *' . « r u t s : Nobody “ S da^ X t a ° f Mor° ' fOrmer T he theory sounds fine. Per- Th< gOVornm ent, it is saia, d iss^ lvas.. MUr .n d Mrs H arry Dean Proud-' haps the inform ation upon which hirefi w ater w itches called geolo- MR craven replies : It js g Ut- 5 X c A S 7 k 2 it is based is correct and the ap- . determ ine the location tie difficult to conduct t» s discussion tion eg>uld have collapsed long be- foot and children of W alla Whlla prsiaal of E uropean ^ k l n g Qf weUg And lt w o rk s, su re . . ^ ‘ ^ . t m o a p h , ^ O l ^ - fore now But the fact that England w e j.e Friday visitors at th e home m ay be correct also It often hap- g defense m echanism a wa- ‘ 5 comeys ln to ~0fflce M an inheritor has not done so is no credit to the M gnd Mrg j T Jo h nson. w ho have placed every. c h e lto n is s la v i n g at pens th a t a giver suffers much w itch cannot be beaten. Any of a Situation. Britain** foreign trade Socialists, conceivable obstacle In th e way oL Nancy Shelton is hta g from the one w ho receives his w anting to drill a well can «without which she cannot live^ in recovery. It’s too bad that Mr. C ra-: th e home of her grandparents, benefactions and the boys w ho hJre Qne for a nom inal sum and -p itc of enorm ous difficulties, has ven fails to cite one factual example? ™ horn — — e sotoe one to nU toe of constructive im provem ent in the, British econom y; but the reason is' th e natives thereof in ra th e r low Jf location produces no w ater. cwnmon people- esteem as regards appreciation ot ^ e a p , says we, for who w ants ; cvcvy survey made, are better fed obvious: no such im provem ent has< The lesson of British So-' services done them . Maybe, M be responsible for a dry hole . today than in the m ost prosperous •ccurred. cialism should taken to heart byj th e brass h ats say. th e re la noth- ,n ground fo r , hand. ..Bndsh U d a y ..^ « » delight- ed that the Em pire is being replaced those few nations still rem aining ing else to do. Maybe th e nras m oney? try a Cum m unwealth—the fam ily has fr e e ^ a m e ljL that “a vast system of statlflbtonopolies” (as Mr Eden de- bats don’t know w h a t to do ______________ grow;, up. Britain needs m any things s^ riffs the ¿coc^m y today) la a dead tnat we can su pp ly—Cassandra* are them selves. a luxury we had better keep for hand pressing i m p e r s o n a l l y a n d Of course, the plan Is based on crusningly upon the British peopta. hom e use. th e presum ption th a t th is nation — s»------- - i ~ r- will continue able to put out five MRS POTTER F IN D S billions a year W e certainly hope p a rt of the county. ■' th a t is true. One can hear th at o b s e r v e r , J u ly 1 7 ,1 9 0 8 A large new barn, harness a n d O LD Ú R IE Ñ D w e should do .c e r t a i n things A ttorney M. E. M iller caught hay belonging to T. S. R eese,-12 * our own nation before sending so fever and stru c k o u t m iles southeast of Moro, was In The jDaUeS; F rid ay M rs A. B. m uch m oney abroad. T h at group « Tuesday piloted by H orace ta m e d in a fire wliich started P o tter enjoyed a sh o rt v isit w ith m ay have an Influence on con- * ™ W hen ’he gets back he’ll about 8 o’clock last F rid a y night. M i^-VlrgW Dfcrthick, th e ir first gress w hich m ight m ean the de- g from th e The barn w as a huge stru c tu re m eeting In about thirty-five years, feat of the plan w hen half done. .. 25 feet of e w ater built ' last fhll to replace one Mrs D erthlck had come from h e r T here Is nothing either, to pre- T onkins has finished a struck by lightning late last sum- home ht F riend to atten d funeral v e n t the w estern E uropean na- L .V *Moore, th a t m er after harvest. services for M rs B a rg en h o lt Mrs tions from taking the cash Uncle ’ Io™ -w en o D erthick ls an old tim e Sherm an Sam has to offer and then tu rn in g w a t' D^ r e in s p it e of all Damage „covering several thou- resident artd will be re- com m unistic as soon as the flow keeP the P ^ ’ssu re in sp ite of flarin dftiiars was caused last Sat- aa m < sr V ir v le of dollar?, ends. W« Just hope^It 1>u™ £an g p“ “ at£ urday» m orning by a fire th at u>fton. c < > • J t sta rte d from a back fire of a Del w on’t happen and are tru stin g again prepared for the w ork of lighting p lan t in the pum p fo r the best the h arvest of 1908; w hich we are . . Mpoler farm The Gay ALWAYS: New Dresses, Blouses and Hand Made Gifts- . . NOW: Nylon Hose, Anklets and ; Ladies Levis W asco, O re g o n Rom where I s i t ¿y Joe Marsh Sam Helps w ith the Dishwashing Dropped ia at the A bernathy’s Just th e other even in g— and there w as Sam. oot in the kitchen w ith an apron on, helping his m iasns wash th e snpper diahea. (And then I learned later he’d helped cook the sapper, too.) O f coarse, Sam ceald have s e t tled in to his fa v o rite ehair, en- joyed his evening glass of beer, and left all the messy kitchenwork to Dixie. But he kind of likes her company — and she in turn car tainly appreciates his hslp. and the mealtime chores is sort of a bond between them . <•< like shar ing that friendly glass of beer to gether, when the work is dona. It’s one of those little all Important things la marriage. From where I sit, the time that a man and wife can spend with each other in this busy world today is all too precious. And the more things they can do together, the better. SL7SÚI la fact, sharing the housework Copyright, 1947, UiuloJ State» Brnoor» Fi [ hi Other Days j . to "w e"« "; : ° X r tor U n i to ^ t th e m an- w ere a su- ey back; — -------- if it , falls we , ™ ™ pv so cker for p u ttin g o u t X * ey ou _ .tiv B ut ut don easily. B don’ t It m ake you feel good to be big hearted “> w“ > * » good on- S ?ou‘ north and east except ' " . « . ^ s p o t a t o ^ never W asco. should have been ploughed. Hoy Axtell finished a first The barrel of flour given each c,08s Job of interior decorating year by th e F arm er E levator & gupp)y Cq the farm cr dellver. aence of F. W. Sayrs, one of the ing the firs t load of new crop m ost convenient in Sherm an w heat to th eir Moro w arehouse county. * I l ‘ *1 was ®arned yeAT ENDING GAMBIANG F ro m th e G. V . J . J u ly 1®, 1918 Miller who arrived a t 5:30 a. m. T he su rp rise action of new ma The postoffice was moved to Monday. F. L. B u rn ett was .the yor D ent in The Dalles, w ho or the telephone office building second. . dered all form s of gam bling stop- m *, mn X te Wï T X received w ord Tues- ^ t a t t n u S tow ard gambling ; X w ‘t£ ~ « U te . T here are signs an over ujc th a t this will be so. ’ h a ^ t r i ^ t o d o 'w m e f tln g ^ b o u t n a \e tneu i annar- e ^ e n V ^ a i 'c ^ n d ^ a c tin g P ostm aster tQok charge W ednesday. A fire had gained some head- way on the roof of Dei. Olds’. house T uesday noon w hen dis- covered and put o u t before any Dalles Is o n e - h a v e taxed « " ¡o u s dam age was done, lite uajie« . *phe w arm w eather the past m tta fto a n riri support therefrom , w eek, has ripened the grain very in t i« n n a n c d farm er8 are getting the- r- iU M- though it I. probably legal to u x ^ n c o m e from it. which a city . '" a ' new law gives the attorney general m ore pow er over district ^ m e v s and It Is no »treteh of r t ^ t t X M t l o n to presum e th at ittn m o v fienrvp N euner a strong f T ^ ^ g a m h lm g Z d ^ ld e to . . _ L ,n rttatrie* attorneys to g ^ X s S of X T t h e r e are nvmy. City offl- m av therefore take the step f l ^ , X e S estg -ialiv if thev pre- in their X -n h . n £ I n X T T l e l l l n g It go to machinery ready for STANLEY SWETT North turn at WASCO W asco, Oregon A uto Repairing active w ort; m any heading crew s «rill « a r t up next week and also some small combines. Very slow progress Is* being made on the elevators at Shaniko A .1 D ftp r ip e and Moro, and wie cause th a t has / \ t l a S D a tlC r ie S been given for delay Is the man- holding men on the job. . From the hhverver July $«. .rtR The meeting held in the cluo room « the Hotel Moro last Fri- day to discuss the b e « m ethods to fight m orning glory in the w heat fields of the county w as Z - A C S T A T I O N attended by a large num ber of ( j A b b 1 A i 1U 1N farm er, from practically every Atlas Tires CHEVRON _ Mac’s Welding & > Machine Shop , PORTABLE /W ELD ER Go Anywhere -See Me For S te e l Bring Your T roubles io Mac z ' • A. D. Mc< oaauxhy W asco Oreffon Shop Phone 332 . '< Home 331 ” ’ GAS a S d - OIL Tires-AcceM^rlea R. H. McKEAN and SON IN S U R A N C E Grain, Feed, Flour, Fuel Fnrm Im plem ents, IlngN. T w ine BARBED W IR E —GOOD POSTS PHONES Residence Feeds tore Office 163 182 162 ; OREGON W A 8G O X * I^ewis WORTH WAITING for ! 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