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
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established Russia “as the world’s over the Soviet Union in the produc
second industrial power after the tion machine which is the telling
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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
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showing U.S. production vs. that of greater still. When it comes to get
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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
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coal output was 288,500,000 tons— satellites.
ours was 556,000,000. Russia pro
and
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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
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piles of this weapon are far larger j
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As some authorities have pointed I than Russia’s.
out, our actual superiority in pro I It is for these reasons, many be
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duction is not quite so marked as the lieve, that Russia has so far stopped
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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. If quick conclusion, with communism
e I'ack tug
the Politburo so desires, everything
e fratine
Murage
can be devoted to guns and nothing
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You wouldn’t set fire to your home, so why
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Forest fires each year destroy enough saw-
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But we all profit from growing forests, Pre-
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