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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, January 18, 1951
EDITORIAL
--ASSOCIATION
Meeting An Emergency
It is regrettable that the city council found it
necessary to dispense with the position of work
superintendent but these are troublous times and
it will be a stroke of good fortune if we hold on
to what we have or at least maintain a respect
able appearance let alone carrying out further
development plans now or in the near future
possibly for five years.
Discontinuance of the job is no reflection on R.
J. Stephens who has held the post the past year.
He has done a good job and his knowledge of
engineering has saved the city money on numer
ous occasions. The fact is that pressure for street
and bridge improvements and emergencies of
one kind and another ate into the budget heavier
than the former council had contemplated and
the incoming council is faced with a program of
strict economizing to see the fiscal year out with
out spending beyond the fixed allowance. Con
sequently, to carry out the city's obligation on
the Court street improvement it was felt necess
ary to discontinue the work superintendent for
the remainder of the fiscal year. This will involve
more work on the part of the mayor and the
councilmen but they feel it is worth the effort if
the project can be finished and the city's other
obligations met within the budget.
No "Legislation As Usual"
Governor Douglas McKay sounded a note of
warning to members of the Senate and House
that this country is in a state of emergency and
"We cannot afford 'legislation as usual' any
more than we can afford 'business as usual'."
He delcared that the legislators must defer those
-ih'.ng net- essential to the economic and social
health of the state and that do not contribute to
a state of readiness for national emergency.
It was a sound warning to the legislators to
stick to the business at hand and not waste time
and taxpayer money in long-winded debates
such as characterize the usual session. The gov
ernor strssed that a state civilian defense organ
ization must be organized rapidly with sufficient
personnel to provide the necessary leadership for
local organizations now being organized in cities
and counties of Oregon.
To overcome the 18 1-2 million deficit, the gov
ernor proposes elimination of the federal income
tax deduction from state income tax returns,
which he contends will increase state income by
about $11 million annually and be sufficient to
meet the deficit and also care for salary increases
granted to state employes last fall. He also ex.
pressed the hope that any state tax on property,
not levied since 1940, might be avoided, although
he is opposed to any law that would exempt real
or personal property from such levy.
Faced with a long and arduous session, both
the governor and the lawmakers have buckled
down to work in a business like manner and will
direct their efforts to shortening the session as
much as is consistent with caring for essential
legislation.
What Is Isolationism?
Isolation, says Webster, is a state of being
detached. In a political sense, It refers to nations
remaining within their own spheres, and given
the American translation it is a matter of look
ing after our own affairs before going out to run
the whole world. To our socialist-inclined admin
istration, an isolationist is anyone who disagrees
with the government's foreign policy or thinks
we should look after our own interests to the ex
tent that America may remain strong and hold
to the title of "arsenal of democracy."
Regardless of the administration viewpoint
there is a growing feeling among our people
that we need to practice more Americanism and
30 Years Ago
January 20, 1921
Fire destroyed the home of
Fred Rauch near Butter creek
last Saturday and Mrs. Rauch
was severely burned about the
head and arms while rescuing
one of her children from ,the
burning building.
Dr. Chick announces the arriv
al of a daughter at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Casebeer,
who reside near Heppner.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore
have taken up their residence
in the house recently vacated by
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Haynie.
E. G. Noble, at a meeting of
the city council Monday night,
was appointed as mayor to take
the place made vacant by Oscar
Borg.
Heppner city library was mov
ed into new quarters this week
and patrons will find it nicely
located at the store of Mrs. L. G.
llerren.
the benefit of
safeguard America in its hour of gravest peril.
Percy Hughes, Butter creek
stockman, has been in town the
past 10 days and laid up with a
bad back. He is slowly recover
ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
S. W. Spencer.
Joe Bradford, who formerly re
sided at Heppner and followed
his trade of painter and paper
hanger, died recently at his
home in Kirkland, Wash.
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RECTOR SUCCEDS EWING
AS UMATILLA SUPERVISOR
New supervisor of the Umatil
la national forest, with head
quarters at Pendleton, will be
Charles M. Rector, supervisor of
the Modoc national forest, Altur
as, Calif. He will succeed Carl M.
Ewing, who retired December 31
after more than 30 years with
the U. S. Forest Service.
Rector returns to the North
west with more than 20 years ex
perience in range management
and other Forest Service work.
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
ASSOCHTJOlN
less internationalism if we are to remain a free
people. For that reason the feeling is spreading
that the words spoken by Herbert Hoover con
tained more wisdom that anything coming from
the White House since he left there. The Ft. Lau
derdale (Fla.) Daily Nws, an independent
Democratic newspaper, sums up the situation
quite clearly under the title "Hoover's Words
Can't Be Shrugged Off." It is recommended read
ing. We quote:
In another space on this page today readers
will find the complete text of the address deliv
ered Wednesday night by this nation's only liv
ing ex-president, Herbert Hoover.
This address is printed in its entirety for the
simple reason that we believe Mr. Hoover echoed
the thoughts of a great many Americans in lay
ing down a policy he believes the United States
should follow in this time of crisis.
President Truman and his advisers won't agree
to much of what the former President had to say.
Already the cry has gone up that the Hoover doc
trine as enunciated in his Wednesday talk, is
isolationism covered up in a fancy new dress.
If so, then Mr. Hoover and thousands upon
thousands of plain, everyday Americans who
agree with him, should be proud to be called
isolationists, for in this doctrine lies our only
hope for making this nation strong enough and
fearless enough to resist the forces of evil at
large today.
For a long, long time this nation has tried to
be friends with Communist Russia. We practical,
ly gave Joe Stalin and his crowd our right arm
during and immediately following World War II.
We hoped that in doing this we could convince
the Russians that we had only peaceful inten
tions and the desire for a better world in the back
of our minds.
We failed to convince the Russians. We gave
and they took and in repayment all we received
were more demands and more insults, and even
some bullets from the guns we foolishly put in
their hands.
We finally started to get tough. We embarked
on a vast program designed to spread our money
and our resources among all free nations in an
all-out effort to help them resist the Communist
surge We spent billions of dollars and sent our
national debt to an unbelievable level to win
friends for ourselves and influence the people of
foreign nations.
Again we met with failure. Our billions were
accepted with glee. But past gifts have a habit
of being quickly forgotten in the face of new de
mands. Today, despite the fact we have given
freely of our resources, we find we still haven't
given enough. Our European friends want more
and more. To many of our so-called friends we
are simply suckers to be plucked. They apparent
ly want us now to stake our very existence on the
slim hope that we can provide enough cannon
fodder and enough force to fight their battles
while at the same time keeping ourselves fully
protected.
The President believes we can do this. His sec
retary of state came back from Europe only yes
terday fully confident that war could be averted
if we send a few more divisions to Europe. But a
few divisions can't stop Russia. A few divisions
couldn't even win a "police action" in Korea. As
Mr. Hoover pointed out the total manpower avail
able to the western world wouldn't be sufficient
to conquer Russia, let alone China and the rest
of Asia.
Hoover doesn't preach isolationism when he
says our own safety demands that we should arm
our air and naval forces to the teeth, greatly re
duce our expenditures, balance our budget and
free ourselves from the dangers of inflation and
economic degeneration before we send another
man or another dollar to foreign lands.
This kind of talk is heresy to an administration
that still believes it can buy friendship and se
curity. But it isn't heresy to the American people
who have been sickened unto death by the cas
ualty tolls in Korea and by the weak-kneed hyp.
ocritical attitude of a United Nations organiza
tion that has backed away from aggression to the
point where it no longer commands any respect
from our citizens.
If Mr. Hoover was really preaching isolation
ism Wednesday it was the kind of isolationism
that our citizens understand. His words make
sense because they reflect the very same feelings
that are being expressed every day by thousands
of our citizens on every street corner throughout
this land of ours.
We hope Mr. Hoover's words sink in on the pol
iticians and the diplomats who hold the fate of
this nation in their hands. We hope they sink in
on the people who exercise remote control over
the politicians.
This country needed somebody ,of Mr. Hoover's
stature to express the sentiments of our people.
It needed somebody who could awaken Congress
to the realities of our present situation. Herbert
Hoover did just that Wednesday night, and his
words of advice can't be shrugged off by any
body with the true welfare of this nation at heart.
We hope and pray our Florida senators and Con
gressmen don't try to shrug them off. Impeaching
President Truman, if he continues on a course of
action that will leave this nation defenseless for
Europe, may be the only way to
This gives him a good back
ground for the complex land
management problems on the
Umatilla forest according to H.
J. Andrews, regional forester. He
received his first appointment
with the government in 1931 as
a junior range examiner on the
Ochoco national forest in Central
Oregon. Previously, he had
worked seasonally on the Ochoco
forest and in Montana and Ida
ho. From the Ochoco country
Rector went to the Whitman na
tional forest at Baker in Febru
ary 1935, and was promoted to
assistant forest supervisor there
in April of that year.
He later served for two per
iods in the Portland regional of
fice division of wildlife and
range management, and for a
short time as assistant supervis
or of the Umpqua national for
est at Roseburg, Oregon. In 1940
and 1941 Rector directed work of
The oAmerican Way
LET'S STOP KIDDING
EACH OTHER
By Dr. ALFRED P. HAAKE
In the dire situation confront
ing us, with the battle for our
national life shaping more om
inously from day to day, we are
still letting the suave deceptions
of political exploiters and econ
omic cowards kid us into poli
cies that vastly increase the cost
of war and make its outcome as
dubious as it is costly.
In plain English, it takes men
and ammunition to win a war.
We can draft the men, by taking
boys out of school and jobs. We
ean take men from their wives
and children, from counting
house, store and factory, put uni
forms on them, train them a bit
and ship them to Korea, Europe
or elsewhere to fight for nations
not quite willing to put up a real
fight for themselves.
We don't exactly like that, but
promises are being made. We al.
ready are in a real war in Korea
and the tears of bereft mothers
will not stop the program. Whe
ther or not we understand the
ineptness that brought us to this
pass, lives now must be spent to
meet a situation already upon
us.
But, we CAN do something
about the problem of getting
more ammunition, which means
everything needed by the boys
who fight a war for us. Those
supplies will have to be pro
duced, and that means a lot of
workers to do the job, with fewer
of them left to do the job.
At the same time we must
feed, clothe and shelter, and per
haps amuse, the population at
home.
And that, they tell us, takes
more men than we have avail
able for the combined job. So we
shall have to employ women
work extra hours at high over
time rates, and even bring in ad
ditional workers from Mexico,
South America and elsewhere.
That is where the bunk en
ters.
We actually do have enough
workers, if all of us do enough
work. We need not increase
vastly the costof war by over
time work at high rates and the
importation of costly foreign
workers, if everyone of us will
do all in his power during reg
ular working hours, and, if need
be, work additional hours at reg.
ular rates.
The boys in Korea risk their
lives 24 hours a day and get no
overtime pay at all, to say noth
ing of time and a half or double
time. Surely, it is reasonable to
ask all of us at home to work as
hard as we can, for as long as
need be, at regular rates and no
more.
"Feather-bedding" is still an
ominous fact and continuous
menace.
Bricklayers who now lay only
300 bricks a day of eight hours
could easily lay 600 bricks in the
same time. And that is less than
half of what many of them laid
per day before the second world
war. Yet, laying only 600 a day
instead of 300 would double the
number of available bricklay
ers.
A carpenter recently told me
that they not only get twice as
much pay but do less than half
as much for that pay, so every
job costs four times as much as
it did before the last world war.
Let them now do as much per
day as they did then, and pres
towe have doubled the number
of available carpenters, and re
duced to one half the cost of
their work for the war. Here is
the way to increase the supply
of labor and cut the cost of war,
without himing anybody, ex
cept perhaps the exploiters.
Carry the same process thru
all industry and business and
in effect, we'll add a great many
workers to our national labor
force without adding a penny to
the total cost.
We need to look no further, if
only we have the courage to face
the truth and stop worrying
about votes. We can easily se
cure all the labor we need, main
tain our standard of living, and
decrease the cost of war enorm
ously at the same time, just by
everybody doing more nearly all
the work he can do, and charg
ing no more to do it..
If we are not willing to pay
that price for what we are about
to lose, then we do not deserve
to keep it.
range examiners in 11 western
states for the Agriculture Ad
justment Administration.
Rector knows the Umatilla
forest from his experience there
as associate range examiner
from March 1940 to March 1941.
He later was supervisor of the
Wallowa forest for three years,
and has been at Alturas since
BELATED CHRISTMAS STORY
By GEORGE PECK
As a general rule one does not
relish being "stood up" on a so
cial or business appointment
But a few days before Christmas
I was "stood up" and it turned
out to be a most pleasant exper.
ience. Although it is a bit late in
the telling, it makes a nice
Christmas story. Before giving
the details of the "stand up"
Commies, Socialists, "Produc
tion-For-Use-Not-Profit" propon
ents and other enemies of our
American Capitalistic System
maintain that the big corpora
tions are devoid of souls. Accord
ing to them all the executives
who manage these companies
are ruthless, hard-boiled slave
drivers, with ice-water coursing
through their veins instead of
blood.
With the Left-Wingers' usual
intentional disregard of the
overall picture, they point to a
few scattered executives who
neither believe in nor practice
the Golden Rule. As in any other
group of Americans it is inev
itable that there should be some
among the business leaders to
whom "With malice toward
none, with charity for all," is a
meaningless precept. Thank
goodness, these unconverted Eb
enezer Scrooges constitute a very
small minority of the business
fraternity. Therefore, all busi
ness executives should not be
condemned for the sins of the
few, no more than a church
should be adjudged evil because
of the few sinners among its con
gregation. .
And now to recount the details
of the pleasant "stand up." Hav
ing made an appointment with
a top executive of one of Amer
ica's largest corporations, I ar
rived at his office at the sched
uled time. His secretary advised
me that his last appointment
had not yet cleared and asked
me to wait a few minutes. The
few minutes stretched out to
more man an nour and I was
forced to leave without seeing
my man in order, to keep another
engagement.
Honesty compels me to say
that I was slightly irked, but the
loiiowing day came an apology
and explanation which warmed
the cockles of my heart. It seems
that just before the hour of my
date, the widow of a recently de
ceased employee had put in an
appearance. This heartless (?)
executive had dropped every
thing, had cast his business ap
pointments aside and was doing
his best to console and counsel
his grief -stricken and distraught
visitor.
This interested me strangely
and I developed a burning desire
to know all the details. I made
it my business to contact several
employees. As the story unfolded
it got better and better. Among
other things I learned that their
departed co-worker had been
seriously ill with an incurable
malady and away from his job
for many months before his
death. The heartless (?) corpora
uon naa Kept mm on full pay
and maintained his pension and
death benefit rights.
One thing that particularly
pleased me was something the
heartless (?) executive said in
the course of his explanation for
failing to keep his appointment:
"You know, I just had to spend
the time with this lady. Her hus
band worked for me for many
years and was a loyal and effi
cient employee. It was the least
I could do for a departed friend."
bearing in mind that for many
months this employee had not
been physically able to render
any service and was now irre
vocably lost to the corporation,
one can readily realize just how
hard-boiled (?) this executive is
and what an evil (?) monster is
the corporation that employs
him.
But what impressed me most
profoundly about the episode
was the comment of one of the
employees I interviewed. It was:
"There is nothing unusual about
this. I could tell you of scores of
similar things I have observed
during the years I have been
with this company."
All of this leads me to one con.
elusion, to wit: The Commies, So
cialists, "Production-For-Use-Not
Profit" proponents and other en
emies of our American Capital
istic System are wrong in their
charge that all big corporations
194G. He will assume his new
duties February 18.
He was born in Shawnee,
Oklahoma, and attended the
Universities of Idaho and Mon
tana where he majored in range
.management. He is a member of
the Society of American Forest
ers and the American gociety of
Range Management,
are soulless and all the execu
tives who manage them are
ruthless, hard-boiled slave-driv.
ers, with ice water coursing thru
their veins instead of blood.
A copy of this is going to the
Daily Worker. How are you bet
ting on the chances of their
printing it?
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