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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1S51 CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN. CENTRAL POINT. OREGON PAGE TWO LETTER FROM WASHINGTON Harris Ellsworth. M. C. 4th District, rOegon In our heavily wooded countiy there is a method of fighting forest fires which is sometimes used in desperation. It is called "back firing.” Fires are not only fanned by the wind but generate their own wind which speeds them along. The back-fire technique is to go into the green timber a quarter of a mile or so ahead of the running fire and set a series of small fires across the path. When the big blaze reaches the line of small fires its momentum may be broken and the fire brought under control. If the back-fire plan fails to work and the fire sweeps on, no harm is done since it would 1 ;<ve gone ahead anyway. So the Administration has set up a “back-fire” against the sweep ot public opinion against its foreign »mpndprl by hv all the news agencies and domestic policies—against the 1 expended public resentment over the firing of in America which operate on a com General MacArthur The back-fire plete nation-wide basis. I mean consists of somethin;; they call the' several times more than the com “China Lobby.” There might be bined cost of operating the United such an organization. If so it is sup- Press, Associated Press, Internation posed, according to administration al News, Transradio Press, etc spokesmen, to have used sinister or Well, enough on the subject of other influence in behalf of Nation back-fires but it is my guess that alist China. If there is such an out when you hear or read about some fit I have never heard of it except thing called the China Lobby, that’s from administration sources, .nd it what it is, a back-fire—set for the surely has been a complete flop in purpose of slowing down the big its activities judging from the pre blaze of public opinion which isj sent pitiful condition of the Nation about to consume the administration I alist government. people. Refering to the so-called China Lobby the following was stated by ' The House is about to begin con- one of the back-fire builders: “It is sideration of the new tax bill. It alleged that from 1946 to 1949 Gov will come to the floor under what ernment, spent in the neighborhood of $654,000,000 to influence Anr.eri-1 we call a closed rule, That means no amendments can be made on the can public opinion.” floor. It will merely be debated aryi of how absurd Now just think that statement is. The sum six then the vote will be for it or against hundred and fifty million dollars it—as is, just as the committee equals many times the total amount brings it to the floor. I do not like that procedure but must admit that when the end product is considered the people will get a better tax bill if we take the one worked out by the committee of experts instead of trying to write it on the floor with amendments. The appropriations bill carrying funds for work on rivers and harbors was passed by the House. Although the total requested by the Bureau of the Budget was cut more than twenty percent, the funds allowed for work on the two big dams in the Willamette Valley flood control project—Detroit and Lookout Point —totalled $15,000,000 each, which will allow work on both those im portant dams to proceed toward completion for the earliest flood protection of much needed power in the Willamette Valley. Economic Highlights— «U to butter To <luote Newsweek victorious. Otherwise, the argument once more in this connection.1 runs, Russian strategy for an inde “Soviet industrial expansion had' finite future time will be to attempt According to an announcement to keep this country busy spending recently issued over Radio Moscow, been achieved at the expense of manpower and resources in a senes Russia’s fourth and last five-year consumer goods. In some cases the i of “little wars,” on the Korean plan has been completed well ahead output fell below prewar. For ex-1 model. of schedule. Her productive capa ample, only 192,000,000 pairs of [ city has been boosted more than 70 shoes (target 240,000,000) were per cent as compared with 1940. turned out last year, compared with Very great progress has been made 230,000,000 in 1940. »1 Building a Greater in the field of basic war commodi However, even after making full ties, including steel, coal and oil. allowance for such factors as these, This, Newsweek reported, firmly we still have a tremendous edge Southern Oregon established Russia “as the world’s over the Soviet Union in the produc second industrial power after the tion machine which is the telling SNIDER’S U.S.” However, going by the best factor in any extended war. If the available evindence, she is a poor productive power of Western Europe 28 N. Bartlett second. Newsweek printed a graph is added, the edge becomes much Phone 2-6169 showing U.S. production vs. that of greater still. When it comes to get Me<Hnr<i, Oregon the U.S.S.R. for a number of key ting out goods and services of any items. In 1950 Russia produced just kind, the United States and her under 28,000,000 tons of steel—we potential allies are enormously produced nearly 97,000,000. Russian stronger than the U.S.S.R. and her Wisely Confections coal output was 288,500,000 tons— satellites. ours was 556,000,000. Russia pro and Sporting Goods Those who have a knowledge of duced less than 42,000.000 tons of oil the supposed facts are unanimously —we accounted for 298,000,000. certain that our superiority is com Lunches Finally Russian eelctric power out parably great in still another vitally put was about 85,000,000 kilowatt important field of production—the and Confections horus, while ours was 388,000,000 A-bomb. And, it is said, our stock HUNTING, FISHING, AND kwh. piles of this weapon are far larger j ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT As some authorities have pointed I than Russia’s. out, our actual superiority in pro I It is for these reasons, many be OPEN 9 A.M. to 10 P.M. duction is not quite so marked as the lieve, that Russia has so far stopped CLOSED EVERY TUESDAY! bare statistics indicate, for the her aggressions short of all-out war. reason that the Kremlin can use a he men of the Kremlin are not fools, much greater percentage of its goods nor are they suicidally inclined. It and services for military purposes can be powerfully argued that if than can we. Her people largely Russia does strike, it will be because live on a subsistence level, and by her masters believe that the next government fiat their living stand war can be brought to a relatively ards can be lowered instantly. 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