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More "National Defense" Hooey
While the Government is scoring hoarding on
the part of individuals it should be keeping a
weather eye on some of the bureaus which help
formulate policies of the Administration. It is
possible to check hoarding by fixing regulations
limiting the amount of any certain article the
individual may buy, but so far nothing has come
up to effectively check the bureaucrats in their
nefarious schemes for strengthening their posi
tions by squeezing the taxpayer just a little
harder.
A good example of this type of hoarding,
which may more properly be called political pro.
fiteering, is seen in the program of the Depart
ment of the Interior which is the primary federal
agency seeking to socialize the nation'6 water
power resources. Public employes of this bureau
are arguing for greater appropriations for un
called for tax-exempt government power projects
as "essential to the national defense." They dis
regard the fact that the power facilities available
in the early forties met the emergency of World
War II under great handicaps of shortage of ma
terials and manpower, and that these same tax
paying enterprises in the electric field could and
would furnish the power needed now and in the
future for industrial demands.
Why saddle more tax burdens on an already
suffering public to gratify the greed of these gov.
ernmental agencies for more centralized (we
mean socialized) power? There is less need now
than there was ten years ago for these so-called
national defense projects. The money expended
and that means billions would do the country
a greater service in actual defense works that will
help preserve America as a whole rather than
wasted in vote-control projects to help maintain
the present political regime in power.
Our Anti-Anti Communists
It is no longer fashionable in some circles to
be either outright Anti-American or Pro-Soviet. A
new species is developing an insidious species
because it dwells in the shadow-gray between the
forthright "Pro" and "Con".
The "Anti-Anti-Communists" call "Witch
hunting" and "Red-baiting" any attempts by ser
ious Americans to safeguard strategic government
agencies from Communist infiltration. They make
spectacular peace gestures, as if our country were
guilty in any controversy hot or cold. They be
lieve our country should always give in on such
issues as the Blockade of Berlin, Russian Boycott
of the United Nations, Russian demands to seat
Red China.
They consider anyone openly opposed to Com
munism as "lacking in objectivity" or " a little
hysterical." They represent Communism as "a
good idea gone wrong" but "a trend of the
future."
They look upon the bright side, ignoring the
oppressiveness, of the Soviet satellite regimes in
Europe and the Far East. They play down the
hostility of such regimes to the United States.
Their influence is to be reckoned with. Not being
outright "Pros" or "Cons", they are well protected
by their enmeshment of fallacy and half-truth.
Their viewpoint is entrenched in some very re
spectable places. Right-thinking citizens believe
it is always fashionable to be an American.
State Senator Austin F. Flegel may think he
is putting Governor Douglas McKay behind the
eight ball by challpnging him to debate at En
terprise on the subject, "Does Oregon need a new
administration?" Whether or not the Governor
accepts the challenge, and it is not likely that he
will, the fact remains that a change from the
businesslike administration now in effect in this
state is not desired by a majority of people who
hold to their belief in free enterprise and the right
of the individual to think and act for himself.
The bungling and uncertainty in Washington is
not making campaigning by Administration-favored
candidate a bed of roses this year. If the
Governor should accept the challenge he may at
least be able to make the challenger come out
and state what he stands for besides being the
choice of the majority party in Oregon.
Fair season is on in earnest in Morrow county,
what with the North Morrow County Fair under
way at Boardman and the finale of pre-Fair and
Rodeo season scheduled for Saturday evening in
Heppner. It has been a good year and our peo
pie are entitled to celebrate their good fortune
Western garb will be very much in evidence the
next ten days, giving the community a holiday
air and adding color to the occasion.
Pendleton has settled the world champion
ships the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo can
now properly settle local championships.
LET'S GET READY
By Morton Clausen
The oAmerican Way
FRUITS OF FOLLY
By Dr. Alfred P. Haake
One little mistake may not be
serious. But, even a little mis
take, uncorrected and repeated,
can grow into mountainous fol
ly with consequences undreamed
of when the string of mistakes
was begun.
Who would have thought
twenty years ago, that the fail
ure of Secretary of State Stim
son to win the support of Eng
land and the subsequent taking
over of Manchuria by Japan in
violation of international agree
ment, would start a train of
events leading to the second
world war, the destruction of
several nations and now to the
beginnings of a third world war,
with Russia and America finally
locked in a struggle to the death
of one or another?
Yet that is precisely what hap
pened the day we pulled in our
horns and let Japan have her
way with Manchuria.
Mussolini needed room for ex
pansion. He hesitated, but when
he saw how easily Japan got
away with her aggression in
Manchuria he plucked up cour
age enough to go ahead. He
could still have been stopped, but
France refused to stand with
England, just as England had
previously refused to stand with
the United States, and Mussolini
had his war. He took over Ethio
pia. Hittler bluffed Chamberlain at
Munich. He saw Mussolinj win
out in his bluff, and himself
went ahead with Czechoslovakia
and Poland, made his deal with
Russia, and the second world war
was really on. Russia took her
half of helpless Poland, all but
ruined Finland, then Germany
turned on Russia, and the Bear
became a pet of America. The
communistic movement became
respectable and even Christian
in the eyes of Russia-fond Amer
icans. We let Russia have Berlin, al
though our boys got there first.
We gave Russia a free ticket to
the Balkan and Baltic states. In
the infamous deal at Yalta we
turned faithless on China and
gave Russia the nod to work her
will in that country. The Ameri
can people were not told, of
course, and a number of years
had to elapse before the truth
became known.
So Russia emerged the 'favored
giant, supposedly our "friend",
the champion of a new "democ
30 Years Ago
September 2, 1920
Earl Gordon, prominent young
man of this city and. Miss Char
lotte Hall, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. N. S. Hall, were married
Sunday afternoon.
One of the best rains of recent
years visited Morrow county last
week with better than an inch
falling in a ten hour downpour.
Several new arrivals have been
announced including a son on
Monday, August 23 to Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Farrens of Hard'
man: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs,
H. D. McCurdy of Gooseberry on
August 20 and on August 26 a
son to Mr. an dMrs. Edward Bur-
racy." Capitalism was held up to " i- " ""
scorn in our country by many of a"k-
the elite and even Christian min
isters joined in seriously propos
ing aco-mingling of capitalism
and communism as the new eco
nomic system of America.
Then Russia, grown strong on
the diet we fed her steel, cop
per, tanks, ships and God knows
what not apparently deliber
ately embroiled us in a blockade
in Berlin. While we flew our
planes back and forth into Ber
lin, Russia was taking over Chi
na. She has had her eyes on In
dia, Persia and other spots, but
apparently Germany is next on
the schedule.
So, thanks to a somnambulant
Department of State, we are now
being kept busy with a costly
and likely to be long-drawn-out
struggle with Russian-inspired
equipped North Koreans while
Russia prepares to have her Nazi
trained German Communists in
East Germany take over the rest
of Germany.
then, other "diversions to
keep the United States busy, pil
ing up her national debt and
grinding her way to economic
depression, while Russia hus
bands her strength against the
day when she can pounce on a
war-worn and weary America for
the final blow. That seems to be
the schedule.
And it began with caving In to
Japan in Manchuria in 1931.
Each step was a new appease
ment, and now we have to fight
whether we like it or not. Boys
who had no chance in all this
folly must pay for it with their
lives!
We must stick together now
and win, no matter what the cost.
But we can highly resolve that
from this point on we shall de
pend more on well-informed Am
erican brains and less on power
Dan Barlow, prominent Rhea
creek farmer has purchased the
residence of Mrs. A. G. Devore in
this city , and expects to move
his family into town before
school starts.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Notson cele
brated their sjlver wedding an
niversary Saturday evening by
a quiet gathering at the family
nome.
Lila, young daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Leo Hill, is under quar
entine at the Hill home on Wil
low street with a light attack of
scarlet fever.
There is a stirtn the new the.
ater in the Elks building this
ween. a. u. sigsbee is busy put
ting in new chairs and other eq
uipment and all is high class.
A feature of the new theater is
the player piano which Mr. Sigs
bee has installed. ,
Howard M. James and family
have arrived in Heppner and are
busy finding a suitable place to
live. Mr. James is the new super
intendent of Heppner schools.
Mrs. James will also teach this
year.
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Gradually most of us are be
ginning to realize that all is not
well in Washington. Quietly, but
persistently, and with a new so
berness of understanding, the
people throughout the nation are
beginnin gto ask pertinent ques
tions. They want to know why Am
erica, whose far-flung forces
practically encircled the globe
in successful defeat of a three-major-power
enemy only five
years ago, must now struggle to
maintain a single beachhead on
relatively small Korea. The more
they think about it, the angrier
they get.
Especially so when we remem
ber that during the past four
years of the cold war we have
individually and collectively dug
into our earnings and saving to
the tune of 50 billion dollars for
national defense. Where has the
money gone?
Then there is the little matter
of Secretary of Defense Louis
Johnson telling us only a few
weeks ago that the nation's de
fense was stronger then than at
any time since the end of World
War II. Our experience in Korea
certainly does not confirm that
statement. Now some of this
country's top military brass are
beginning to tell us how woe
fully weak our defense machin
ery is. Can it be that Johnson
doesn't know? If so, why is his
desk at the Pentagon?
It has also begun to dawn up
on President Truman and our
national administration that this
war in Korea may be more than
just a local skirmish that we
may actually be at war with
Russia. Although things seem
quite calm on the surface in
Washington,' we are nevertheless
aware of considerable scurrying
beneath that calm surface. The
President is "casually" mention
ing some wartime controls he
would like to have, and Congress
seems willing to grant him every
thing he asks, and much more
no strings attached.
There are times when our
elected representatives remind
us of a gang of boys, quite "bull
ish" when the going is smooth;
but when things get tough, they
turn tail and run. We are won
dering if, in the light of public
experience with unrestricted and
unconditional controls vested in
the administration for an indefi
nite period of time, Congress is
not evading responsibilities now
that the going is getting tougher.
Yes, we do expect to pay high
er taxes under circumstances
leading up to and during a na
tional emergency. We are will
ing to tighten our belts, to get
along with less a lot less be
cause we know it means more
arms, better equipment and more
of a chance for the lives of pur
boys who must bear the brunt
of the sacrifices.
But this ns one time when av
erage Joe Doakes is going to
have an extra string to his
purse, emergency or no emer
gency, and he is beginning to
voice his sentiments about that
string in no uncertain terms. He
wants th egovernment to start
economizing, and to quit fooling
around with all sorts of istlv
socialistic and half- communist
ic experiment.
When your own family is in
need, you don't take the bread
away from them and give it to
some other family. In times of
emergency everyone is expected
to stand on his own feet and not
lean on the other fellow. That
goes for the farmer, for labor and
industry, and for every agency,
pressure group and "gimme" ag
ency in th eland. No man can
fight his best and give his ut
most to a given task if at the
same time he has to tote anoth
er fellow on his back.
One of the primary reasons
why this country has grown to
wealth and greatness is that
here every man was expected to
stand on his own two feet and
battle it out against fate and
circumstances. By doing that we
grew strong and virile and rich
enough to take fairly good care
of the other fellow who fell by
the wayside through no fault of
his own.
But of late years some scoun
drels, aided by misguided, starry-eyed,
do-good dreamers, have
planted the seed of inferiority
deep in our minds, and so firm
ly has it become imbedded that
we are-losing confidence in our
selves and in our ability to do
for ourselves. It seems, in nearly
every undertaking, we must havp
help. Without shame we are beg
ging at the public trough. We
want to ride on the other fellow's
back. But the time is raoirilv an.
proaching when there won't be
enougn backs to ride on, and
we are fast forgetting how tn
waiK Dy ourselves.
However, there is one encour
aging sign on the horizon: r.rarf.
ually th eman on the street and
in th efield is waking up. He is
recognizing the seeds nf riisin.
tegration for what they are
weeas ana mat they must be
rootea out.
It maq take something like a
war with Russia to wake us up
aim once more reveal to us the
joy of walking as free mpn in a
land of freedom, where each has
the right to make his own opportunities.
If that's the case, LET'S GET
KH.ADY!
let 9t daut!
Random Thoughts...
politics. Let's bury
and all he stood for.
Pendergast
Ye scribe was meandering
about the court house Wednes
day and came upon Judge Bar
ratt perusing the assessor's state
ment of taxes. He was getting
genuine satisfaction from the
fact that the levy for School Dis
trict No. 1 was 9. plus lower this
year than in 1949. This does not
mean that expenses have been
reduced that much. On the other
hand, property valuation within
the district has increased slight
ly over one-half million dollars,
This leads to the thought that
a little more truthful valuation
given in by property owners
would solve a good many tax
problems. We howl about the le
vies for this, that and the other
thing, yet do the very thing that
makes it necessary to up the
levies. It doesn't look consistent
for a taxpayer to ride up to the
courthouse in a fine big car and
then turn in a tax statement that
would make the proverbial
church mouse look like a Croe
sus. There are certain establish
ed values we can't escape, but
there are many others that we
all try to escape, some more suc
cessfully than others. If each
citizen were to pay his just share
it is possible that all could ben
efit from a reduction in levies.
The "Court" mentioned anoth
er matter that shows the county's
finances are in good shape. He
said that the road bond Issue
could be paid off in 1952 but as
the terms under which they were
sold call for payment of interest
until the expiration date in 1955
it would not be consistent to re
tire them before that time. The
bond buyers outsmarted the
county officals, that's all.
The annual Dress-up parade
will be held Saturday evening
and J. R. "Rosie" Huffman is
wondering if anything will hap
pen to the lights. Now "Rosie"
had no more to do with the lights
going out during last year's pa
rade than you or I or the other
fellow, but being manager of the
local office of the power com
pany he was the target for many
jibes, most of them jokingly but weather.
Fire At Elevator
Gives Town Scare
Visions of another big fire
swept through 'the minds of the
townspeople Wednesday after
noon when the fire department
was called to the new elevator
of the Morrow County Grain
Growers. A large concourse of
cars rushed to the scene but dan
ger of a conflagration had sub
sided by the time many of them
arrived on the scene. .
Defective wiring in the eleva
tor tower was the cause of the
trouble and only minor damage
was done except to the minds
of the people who can not ease
the fright caused by the big fire
of 1949.
o
itnea reeK grange will re
sume activities tomorrow (Fri
day) evening at 6:30.
we fear some of them were fla
vored with sarcasm. That's all in
the day's work for a power man
ager, it being understood that he
should have complete control of
the elements, and while he may
keep the service going in good
or bad weather no way has been
devised for controlling some un
reliable car driver who glides off
of the road and into one of the"
company's poles.
1 he fire siren sent forth its
chilling blast and the young
granddaughter rushed in from
the yard to inquire"Grandmoth-
er, where is the fire?" "At the
elevator, dear." "Oh that again,'
and with that returned to her
play in the yard.
If the present brand of wather
holds for another 10 days the
Morrow County Fair and Rodeo
should be the most successful in
history. It is as near perfect as
could be asked for. However, we
hvae authentic advice from a
private source that around about
September 8 we may have rain.
This is not mentioned to dampen
the ardor of fair and rodeo en
thusiasts but it does confirm the
contention that scheduled events
of this type take a gamble on the
Last Mondav pvonlnn
ter, went to an advertised meet
ing, by invitation, at the Court
House on RAIN-M Aif run i ,oe
mildly curious and wanted to
know what the nnisp waa nil
about. This was the story.
Last spring a eroup of enter-
prising farmers got together and
talked about rain-making. We
nave an read a great deal about
that subject and while we are
skeptical we are also hopeful.
Those farmers, after listening
to an expert in the field talk on
the subject, decided to organize
and did organize. 'The Tri-Coun-ty
Weather Research Corpora
tion, "covering the counties of
Morrow, Gilliam and Sherman.
Their stock issue was nill, but
there were enough donations to
cover expenses. Mr. Ralph Crum
was elected president, vice pres
ident, George Wilson and Frank
Anderson and Alvin Bunch direc
tors, Ralph Potter treasurer with
Nelson Anderson, county agent,
secretary. Poor county agent, he
falls secretary of everything.
Our organization's officers con
tacted experts and operators in
the field and received an offer
from them that they would
double the rain fall from 3.3 in
ches to 7.2 inches.
For this rain production, the
experts wanted from the three
counties $15,000.00 down and in
the event they were successful in
producing the rain, $40,000.00
more after June 30, 1950.
To raise 'this amount, Morrow
County's share being about $20,
000.00 of the $55,000.00 the organ
ization decided to raise it by pop
ular subscription.' And each far
mer was asked to put up 30 cents
for each acre of crop to be pro
duced in 1951. The farmers pre
sent gave their checks for ap
proximately $10,000.00, and that
represented about only 24 farmers.
Now I went there to listen on
ly, but when Cutsforth, Duvall
and others put up money to
make it rain on my wheat land,
I couldn't stand out so I put up
$180.00 myself. Gambling, huh!
Well, perhaps. What about my
$180.00. If the rain-makers fail
to make the rain fall as much
as they agreed, I will get back
all but my share of the $5,000.00
this county had to put up to get
the thing started. But if the rain
guys do produce 7.2 inches of
rain in April, May and June of
1951, I will have a 40 bushel
crop and all I will have to wor
ry about will be the income tax.
So I am bettim? about SRfi.no'
against $10,000.00 'and all the
great benefits the rest of the
county will receive should we
get that much rain. Well,, I have
spent many times $80.00 for hop
ed for community betterments
heretofore, so why worry.
Then too, should these other
farmers actually get the rain and
benefit my crop and I haven't
spent a cent to help, I surelv
would feel like a piker. No, Cuts
forth and Duvall and all the oth
ers can't put up for me. By
George, I'll put in with 'em.
Any farmer or stockman who
has not been contacted on this
project, should go to the County
Agent's office, find out their
share and come in with the rest
of us, and we will all be smart
boys or be suckers together.
J. O. Turner
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