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Poge 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, April 14, 1949 EDITORIAL P 1 1 1 s Kt 5 ojri t i NATIONAL EDITORIAL I association iHIHMUlUM Monday's the Day! Monday, April IS, it, an important dale on the calendar for Munuu oouni people. On th.it day "We, the ix'ople" must decide whether we want to face the music and pay the price of better edu cational facilities or duck the responsibility and let the fuUire bring what it may. Admittedly, it is not a pleasing outlook to the taxpayer, but let us take the viewpoint that the situation with v hich we are faced is the price of progress, and there are but two paths to choose from to go ahead 01 go backwards. The various budget boards have wrestled with finance problems and have endeavored to hold costs to the minimum, but by the time all reports were assembled the total reached a somewhat staggering figure. Changes in school operation more consolidations with consequent additional bus sen ice; the bringing of the schools up to standard requirements; the raising of teacher pay to attraact the type of teachers we wish to in struct out children thes?, and other factors have necessitated elevating the sights, as it were, in order to maintain an educational system worthy or me name. t It will be worth the time of the qualified voters to attend the budget meetings of their respective districts and learn, before voting, why it is neces sary to raise more money for the schools this year. Lack of interest on the part of patrons may result in a lot of misunderstanding indeed, it will result in just that that might be prevented if they would attend the meetings and seek to learn more about school matters. War's Terrible Cost At a time when many people talk almost glibly of the possibility of a third world war, it is wise to attempt to assess the cost of the last conflict. Nothing resembling an exact accounting can be mad! there are too many imponderables and in tangibles, which permit of only an informed guess. One of the most thoughtful efforts to ar rive at the cost of World War II appears in Har per's Magazine for April. It is written by C. Hartley Grattan, who has long been a student of the economic implications of war. Mr. Grattan concludes that about 10.000,000 members of armed forces lost their lives. The last war was unique in that civilians suffered a heav ier mortality than did men in uniform. The cas ualties from bombing; the planned extermination of whole categories of civilians; the terrible death rate among slave laborers; the losses in under ground movements these and other causes prob ably were responsible for 30,000.000 deaths. Thus, the total human cost of the war was 40.000.000. To total the material cost brings the analyst to extremely difficult ground. The most obvious and easily-unearthed cost is the money actually spent for military purposes by victor and vanquished. This is recorded in national budgets. It came to more than a trillion dollars $1,117,000,000,000. Next we must arrive at the cost of the physical damage which was done during the long course of the conflict. Factories, power plants, transporta tion systems and whole industrial regions were razed on a wholesale scale. Both sides concen trated on attacking dwelling areas people who have no place to live especially in severe weather, are of small value as workers. Mr. Grattan ar rives at the figure of $2,234,000,000,000 (Over 2 trillion) to cover the cost of direct destruction. But this is not all. There is another economic cost, which is the most difficult yet to estimate. That cost is found in the depletion of natural resources, the disorganization of economic sys tems, the value of labor and material seized and caned off by invaders, and so on. Mr. Grattan places this cost at $650,000,000,000. Adding all the costs up, we have a final, incredible figure of four trillion dollars $4,000,000,000,000! And this, as he says, leaves out the normal cost of war, which is beyond statistics. Wrld War II was seven times as destructive as World War I. If World War III should come with the atom bomb there is every reason to believe that the costs would be beyond calculation and civilization wiped out. Here is why the best minds in the world are now devoted to the task of maintaining the peace. The oAmerican Way SLAVE LABOR? By DeWitt Emery (Editor's Note: DeWitt Emery is president of the National Smail Business Men's Association.) Now it can be told at long last, William Green, President of the A. F. of L. is on record concern- sion, asking that the road lead ing to the Grant county line from Heppner via Hardman and Par kers Mill be accepted as a post road. Elks to the number of about a hundred gathered at their hall last Thursday evening for instal lation ceremonies and to enjoy a big clam feed The matter of the new building was also taken up and met with an enthusiastic re ception. When subscriptions to tock in the enterprise were call- d for, $11,000 was subscribed in very few minutes, and the new building seems now to be assur- d. The following officers were nstalled: Exalted ruler, F. A. Me- Menamip; esteemed leading knight, C. B. Cox; esteemed loyal night, B. B. Kelly; esteemed lec turing knignt, b. r stone; trustee. L. Gilliam; treasurer, rranK Gilliam; secretary, Harold Cohn Rights Must Be Earned Albert S. Goss, Master of the National Grange, has written a telling editorial on the important subject of "Human Rights Versus Human Respon sibility." He points out that the General Assembly of the United Nations has officially stressed rights which are theoreticlly owed the individual by the state, such as the right of rest and leisure, protec tion against unemployment, housing and medical care and other forms of social security. Then Mr. Goss writes: "We believe the United Nations is tackling the w hole question of human rights wrong end first . . . What the world really needs is a Heclaration of Human Responsibility People need to learn that they cannot expect something for nothing. Furthermore, self-govern ment falls when a majority fails to realize that they must contribute as much as they take out For example, the impossible economic situation in France today is the result of the people de manding more of the government than they give. . . . "It is high time we return to the simple phil osophy of willingness to work.'' One great difficulty that must be met by the framers of the United Nations declaration of policy is that they must satisfy scores of nations and governments which subscribe to every kind and form of political theory. However, the peoples of the free countries, the United States included have gone a long way down the deadly path that leads to complete governmental domination of oui lives. The "gimme" spirit has reached tragic pro portions. And so has the idea that government "owes" us protection against every possible exi gency. To quote Mr. Gosagain, "Rights must be earned through the exercising of responsibility." In a free country, the people support their government, and give it orders. In a dictatorship, the government takes over the people, and gives them orders. The distinction is that simple. R. N. Stanfield made a ship ment of three cars of sheep from he Heppner yards to Chicago Wednesday. S. W. Spencer and E. G. Noble were visitors in Pendleton Sun day, going over in the Spencer car. Mat Halvorsen and Gus A. Johnson of the lone section were uisiness visitors in Heppner on Friday last. ing what in his judgment makes the Taft-Hartley Act a slave labor law. Here's what he says: 'The Constitution of the Unit d States provides that involuntary servitude shall not be imposed on any individual except as pun ishment for crime. Yet the Taft- Hartley Law authorizes the use of injunctions which when ap plied compels workers to work against their will. That is slav ery and involuntary servitude, practiced in a free America. How would employers feel if they were enjoined and compelled by injunctions to operate their plants against their will and at a loss? It matters not how long a man is compelled to work for one minute or one second it is compulsion,' and if he is forced to work against his will and go to jail as a consequence of refus ing to work, he is a victim of in voluntary servitude and slavery. You and no one else can deny this fact." How do you like that? Accord ing to Green, workers are slaves because the Taft-Hartley Act gives the government the right, for example, to go into court and get an injunction to keep babies from starving when a strike pre vents their getting milk, forcing the workers to stay on the job doing their regular work at their regular rate of pay while at their ion and employer "negotiate a new contract. ADDarentlv. Mr. Green feels that It's perfectly all rfght for him and a small handtul of other labor union bosses to have life and death power over this na tion of one hundred fifty mil lion people; that it's all right for these labor union bosses to be able whenever they wish to shut off food, fuel and everything else for everyone in the country; that the public has no right at all to protect itself in any way against anything union labor wants to do, it, The Gazette Times this week finished the job of printing the 1919 premium books for the bev- enth Annual Morrow County raif nnri thpv will be mailed out nromutlv bv Secretary Brown of I In case he doesn't know he fair board. i someone snouiu n-ii diu uin-u that it's exactly this attitude, H. V. Gates, president of Hepp-1 "union labor can do no wrong," ner Light & Water company, was ! which was responsible for the here a couple of days this week, , people forcing Congress to pass coming in for the purpose of be- the Taft-Hartley Act. They got sinning the survey of the conduit ; fed all the way up to me en's line from the mountains, un go- iwith mass picketing DEMOCRACY UNDER PRESSURE The legislature's courage for achievement was caught in its first eddies of dissention Satur day when Representative Giles French regimented an opposition bloc and tabled the senate s ver sion of the tax bill. French led a fight to put to the vote of the people a constitutional amend ment that would prevent the State from levying a property tax for state purposes, and re quire initiative petitions to state how much what they propose would cost, also to create an in terim committee to study Ore gon's tax structure. The tabling vote erne after a senate house conference commit tee had an "unjangling" tug-of-war that lasted four hours and reported no progress. This move developed visions of a 100-day session. INTERIM COMMITTEE ERRED The act of the highway interim committee, created by a joint res- olution of the 1947 legislature, in drawing $106,000 from highway funds to conduct its study was declared an error this week in an opinion by the attorney general's office. The opinion says "That an un ambiguous and clear constitu tional limitation prohibits draw ing money from the treasury thru the medium of an attempted ap propriation by joint resolution." Senator Richard L. Neuberger. who requested the opinion, and other senators were critical of the amount expended and of the le gality of the expenditure. In read ing the opinion on the floor of the senate, Neuberger said he had been unable to account for $15, 000 of the sum despite an inten sive search through the records filed with the highway commis sion and the secretary of state. DENIES DESIGNS "Oregon's southern neighbor has no designs for tapping Col I BOTH COULD BE RIGHT umbia river water," said Califor- "You say we snouiu au.nu te nia's Governor Earl Warren to didn't know what we were doing his host, Governor McKay, at the I w hen we voted for the $50-a meeting of three western gover-! month pension," retorted a Con nors in Portland last week. The i trite oldster at a social welfare federal government is conduct committee hearing. "What we ing a survey of a plan to pipe will admit is that we didn t know Columbia river water to alleviate (what we were doing when we a California water supply shrink-1 voted for you to come to the leg age. . iislature." , wrf 11" W"" W ' "W."SM ing out to the timber belt, Mr. Gates found that he could not get at the work, owing to snow, and will return a few weeks later. The Stockmens and Cowpunch ers dance at lone on last Friday night is reported to have been a comDlete success. The attendance was good and everyone had a ery year I work about twenty-five intimida- percent of the time for the federal tion, coercion, goon squads, an- i government. This very definitely archy, with being kicked around ! is against my will and because archy, with being kicked all over it is. I am, therefore, a "victim of the lot by a small group of self- i involuntary servitude." which must mean that I'm a "slave" of the state. I don't like Tieing a slave, and if those ot you who pay income tax and are, there fore, victims of involuntary ser vitude, also object to being ish, self-centered, self-seeking, unscrupulous labor union bosses. This "slavery" idea of Green's, however, has some rather intri guing aspects. I've heard the in come tax law called manv hard fine time. Prizes went to Mr. and names and heard it denounced slaves, perhaps we should do Mrs. George Sperry and Miss Loia from several dilterent angles, nur something about it. Maybe by all Hayes of this city for the best I never heard it called a "slave working together we could force dressed cow-boy and cowgirl char- labor law." However, according to i our "masters" to repeal the "In acters, while Joe White of Wil- j his reasoning, that's exactly what I come-tax-slave-labor-law." I'll be lows took the persimmon for the j jt must be. Iglad to spearhead the movement toughest character. I Take my case for example: Ev-, if you'll back me up on it. 30 YEARS AG Heppner Gazette Times. , April 17, 1919 ; W. F. Barnett, merchant and farmer of Lexington, was a bus-! lness visitor in Heppner on Mon day. Mr. Barnett expresses the opinion that the Lexington coun try faces the best crop prospects this spring she has enjoyed in her history, judging from the pre sent outlook. The first half of Morrow coun ty's taxes have been collected at the sheriff's office and the bulk of this money has been turn ed over to Treasurer Humphreys by Sheriff Shutt. The total am ount represented on the 1918 roll to be collected-is S224.683.08. Am ount collected to date, S114.841.52 and turned over to the treasurer, $111,841.77, leaving a balance on hand of $3101.75. This indicates that a little better than one-half of the taxes .n the roll have been collected up to the present time. ... Resolutions were filed by the county court during the week with the state highway commis- v . Si ere is Th No Lovelier Way To Say It . . Than With Flowers That "special someone" you're escorting in the Easter parade will love a corsage to complement her costume. If you place your order now, you can be certain of getting just the proper flowers. EASTER LILIES $3.00 up . . si Mary Van's Flower Shop A Change In Personnel .... It is our pleasure to announce that a change in per sonnel has been effected in our firm. Harlan Mc Curdy Jr. has acquired an interest in the business and will hereafter be associated with us in caring for your insurance problems. 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