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Who Wants Acheson?
Political expediency Is as changeable as the
weather. First the Republicans demanded the
resignation of Secretary of State Dean Acheson
because of their apparent sincere belief that he
was fumbling the ball, so to speak, on U. S. for
eign policy. This attitude of the GOP nettled the
so-called Democrats the Administration sup
porterswho rallied to the secretary's defense
and caused the little man in the White House to
swear one of his swears and state that Acheson
would stay.
That state of affairs has been somewhat alter
ed by the MacArthur 'incident". It appears that
Administration supporters are worried over the
outcome of Mr. Acheson's appearance before the
Senate committee investigating the MacArthur
dismissal. Their worry is so acute that some of
the bigwigs of the so-called Democrat party
would breathe much more freely if the Secretary
would resign forthwith which would mean be
fore this article appears in print. Testimony of
Mr. Acheson as a private citizen would be far less
damaging to the party cause than testimony of
Mr. Acheson, Secretary of State.
And now comes the payoff. The Republicans
are afraid that Acheson will resign and by so do
ing deprive them of one of their best targets in
the forthcoming national election.
To a somewhat befuddled casual observer it
looks like Mr. Acheson will still provide a fair
amount of ammunition for the GOP. If he remains
in office he will be a direct target. If he resigns,
the action will definitely indicate the weakness
of the Administration's foreign policy. The Repub
licans should be able to cash in on the situation
either way.
Has Some Value After All
Prices being what they are these days it is al
most inconceivable that a penny will buy any
thing except a one-cent stamp or a post card.
Yet there are exceptions and one of them is
electricity.
Talking over the CBS network recently, Cedric
Adams observed, 'The electricity that flows into
your house is a pretty good bargain when you
look at it this way: A penny's worth of electricity
will buy your radio entertainment for thiee hours
and 46 minutes. It will toast 24 slices of bread
two at a time in a pop-up toaster. A penny's
worth of electricity will run your vacuum cleaner
for 28 minutes, give you an hour and 53 minutes
of light from a 110 -watt bulb. Makes a good buy,
doesn't it?" (And Mr. Adams might have added
that a penny will buy 12 minutes on a parking
meter).
A significant fact is that electricity now costs
less than it did during the depths of the depres
sion, back in 1935. You'd search long and hard to
find anything else in general use which has fol
lowed that kind of a price pattern in this age
of inflation. In every home and in most of our
industries, the power bill is one of the smallest
and least painful items in the operating budget.
These are matters of fact, points out the In
dustrial News Review. What gives them a spec
ial significance is the old political clamor for
government-produced "cheap power." Well, the
government could give us power service for less
than we pay now. It could do that by using our
tax money to pay all or paxt of the cost of pro
ducing and distributing power, as it already does
in tax-exempt government-owned power plants.
And, by the same token, it could give us cheaper
food, clothing, reading matter and everything else.
The only honest argument for government po
wer is the socialist argument that the government
should own practically everything. All the other
arguments are phoney.
Another Bureaucratic Headache
Whether or not the Office of Price Stabilization
succeeds in abating inflation there is one thing
it is accomplishing with deadly certainty the
biggest round of headaches the business people of
the country have experienced since the memory of
man runneth not. It will be next to a miracle if
the population of the mental institutions of the
land is not materially expanded. If you doubt
this you who have not been worried with com
plying with OPS regulations you should try to
read and decipher the directions mailed out from
Washington to the hapless retailer. It is doubtful
if even the authors of the masses of rules and
regulations could fill out the directives to the
letter.
The overlords back in "Confusion on the Po
tomac" are complaining or are at least disap
pointed that many busiessmen haven't done what
the law requires within the time allotted them to
make their reports and post their price lists. This,
it can be confidently said, isn't because retailers
and others are callous law breakers. It simply re
fleets the fact that many of them, particularly
small operators, haven't the time, the staffs, or
the knowledge to comply with regulations which
have puzzled some of the top experts on business
management and procedure. It reflects the fur
ther fact that, on numerous occasions, OPS field
men haven't fully understood the orders either,
and that, on other occasions, orders have con
flicted with each other and have been impossible
to follow.
About all that will come of all this confusion
will be the addition of another bureau which,
because of some emergency or other, will become
fastened onto the Washington merry-go-round
permanently, adding to the tax bill and edging
the nation one step closer to a total socialized eco
nomy. That will happen unless enough of the bus
iness people and all others affected by the OPS
go to the polls next year and help change the
trend of thought in the highest places.
The Process of Death
Thirty years ago Woodrow Wilson, a President
who was also a distinguished historian and a
profound student of government, said: "The his
tory of liberty is the history of the limitation of
governmental power, not the Increase of it. When
we resist the concentration of power, we are re
sisting the process of death, because concentra
tion of power is what always precedes the destruc
tion of human liberties."
In the ensuing 30 years, we have seen concen
trations of power in government beyond any
thing that Wilson could have conceived. Millions
upon millions of people have been reduced to
slavery. Great nations are ruled by terror. The
clock of freedom has been turned back centuries.
We Americans are among the relatively few
peoples who are free. But we will not remain free
unless we strongly and effectively resist the con
centration of power in government and so, in
Wilson's fine phrase, resist the process of death.
Industrial News Review.
The oAmerkctn Way
der. Is the ambitious American
lad, willing to earn his education,
an extinct species? Had a pater
nalistic government arbitrarily
concluded that if a boy's parents
cannot finance his education, op
portunity no longer exists for
him to buy his own?
All this talk about class dis
crimination is arrogant nonsense.
It is an insult to American youth.
Quite firmly I am convinced that
there are hundreds of thousands
of American boys who WANT a
college education badly enough
to EARN it by the sweat of brow.
All they ask is an opportunity to
work for it.
It comes as a great relief to
learn that at least one college
president agrees with me and is
doing something about it. Dr.
Samuel D. Marble, practical, far
sighted young president of Wil
mington (Ohio) College, has pro
vided an answer to those critics
who have declared that college
student draft deferment policies
are unfair to young men from fa
milies of limited means, because
a qualified boy may be deferred
only if he can "afford" the ex
pense of a college education.
While the nation has been de
bating the issue, Wilmington Col
lege has been setting up a new
kind of work-study program
which will enable students to
earn virtually all of their college
expenses. Under this 'earn -while
you-learn" plan a college educa
tion is available to every quali
fied young man regardless of his
financial resources.
Established to help insure the
nation a supply of trained lead
ers for tomorrow, the program
opens up an untapped source of
potential leadership by putting
higher education within reach of
all who are willing to help them
selves. In announcing this program
THE STUDENT DRAFT
By GEORGE FECK
Listening to the controversy plan was inaugurated on an ex-
over college student draft defer- perimental basis in the fall of
ment policies had led me to won- 1950, and that the results have
been more than gratifying. Ap
proximately 100 students are now
participating in this project and
are getting invaluable employ
ment experience as well as an
income sufficient to cover their
basic costs of tuition, room and
board.
Now that the idea has proven
itself to both the college and the
co-operating industries and bus
iness firms, it will be expanded
this summer and fall with open
ings for 200 more young men and
women.
In operation the plan provides
that two students hold down one
full-time job. One does the work
on Monday, Wednesday and Fri
day and attends classes on Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday,
while the other student pared on
the job has just the alternating
schedule. The students are paid
by the cooperating firms at the
same rate as full time workers,
and have the advantage of liv
ing in dormitories on the cam
pus and enjoying all the privi
leges of full-time resident stu
dents. While the majority are
employed in industry, the stu
dent is free to select any course
of his choice.
Students in this program can
complete degree requirements in
four calendar years and graduate
with their classes, holding not
only a college degree, but in
addition the equivalent of two
full years of work experience.
There are other colleges that
have programs to help students
work their way through school,
but not enough of them. It is to
be hoped that all schools that do
not now have such enlightened
programs will soon follow their
lead. Let's be done with this fool
ish drivel that our American
youth is no longer endowed with
a spirit of initiative and enter
prise. If he isn't, then God help
an honest day's pay. Together,
by producing the most of the
best for the least, labor and man
agement can run down the wild
bulls of inflation and save our
American economy from a gener
al stampede.
Such action may mean smaller
profits for industry and harder
work for labor as of today. But In
each case the effect would be far
more acceptable than slave labor
and no profits at all tomorrow
under Socialism, Communism or
what-have-you. The end of the
present inflationary trend is not
pleasant to contemplate, bin; it
is nevenneiess already clearly in
sight as the inevitable conse
quence of our being penny wise
and dollar foolish.
The boys in the Kremlin are
.hopefully waiting for our eco
nomic bubble to burst and scatter
panic to the far corners of our
country. Joe and his henchmen
know only too well that when
American workers in vast num
bers begin losing their homes,
their cars and what they thought
was their security, the United
States will be a pushover for
Communism.
The moment has arrived for
intelligent sacrifices to be made
by the partners of industry. Tem
porarily at least, management
must be content with lower unit
profits and labor must do more
for the wages it is paid. Our im
mediate salvation and subse
quent economic progress depend
upon greater productivity not
upon the present moment's wan
ton rush for FOOL'S GOLD.
for all
occasions
MARY VAN'S FLOWER SHOP
FLOWERS
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Dr. Marble explained that the "us.
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There is an old and true say -1
ing: The higher the leap the har
der the fall. It would be well for
all of us to bear the truth of
this statement in mind, particu
larly when we realize that the
present inflationary trend is arti
ficially sustained.
If the "Police Action" in Ko
rea ended tomorrow and Stalin
suddenly decided to turn off the
heat as his final, most effective
weapon directed at our economy
industry would be immediate
ly compelled to get back to nor
malcy. That would mean the im
mediate laying off of millions of
workers. Again the law of supply
and demand would come into
play, but in reverse, That would
mean that wages would be rolled
back to normalcy. Meanwhile
there is no case on record of
mortgages on homes, automo
biles, refrigerators, radios and
the likes being rolled back along
with wages. Fixed obligations
being what they are, it requires no
it would take a worker whose
wages were rolled back from $300
a month to $200 a month to lose
his home, his car, his appliances,
Such are the unvarnished facts
of economics facts we must
reckon with right now if we
would avert a general catastro
phe that would play directly into
Joe Stalin's hands.
The workers are not alone
caught in this dilemma. Manage
ment, too, Is in it clear up to its
executive neck and right now
should prepare to meet the emer
gency. Most corporations have
enjoyed a full decade of steady
profits. Surpluses have been built
up which can serve a purpose
which in the long run might well
turn out to be more economically
wholesome than just plant ex
pansion. In a word, industry Is
in an ideal position to make the
may be vital to the salvation of
sacrifice which in large measure
our economy. I, therefore, unhesi.
tatingly suggest that business in
general undertake to roll back
commodity prices perhaps as
much as 10 per cent thereby
adding value to the dollar and
immediately eliminating the ne-:
cessity of labor's unceasing de-1
mand for higher and higher
wages. It would be far better to
do this now, voluntarily, when
sales are at their peak.
Obviously, if it is up to man
agement to roll back prices, it
is equally the duty of labor to
roll up its sleeves and get back
to the sound economics of dehv
ering an honest day's work for
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30 Years Ago
Thursday. June 2, 1921
Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Van Schoiack of Balm Fork, on
June 10, a 10-pound son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Orian
Wright on May 30, an 8-pound
daughter.
Mrs. M. Belle Thompson of
Portland is visiting at the home
of her son Ralph this week and
attending to business affairs.
Fred A. Case died at his home
in this city Saturday, May 28.
following a lingering illness.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Conover
and two granddaughters, Lucille
and Happy Roberts, visited a few
days at the Vawter Crawford
home. They were on their way to
Bend to visit their daughter, Mrs.
Harvey Humphreys. The Conovers
are residents of Waitsburg, Wn.
E. J. Merrill who runs one of
the best farms in the vicinity of
Hardman, was in Heppner for a
few days on business.
Members of this year's gradu
ating class of Heppner high
cshool are Annie Hynd, Elmer
Peterson, Relta Neel, Roland
Humphreys, Audra Grogan, Ed
ward Chidsey, Kathryn Pattlson,
Edward Young and Pearl Hall.
On June 1, James Hart resigned
from the management of Hotel
Patrick, which position he as-
From where I sit ... &y Joe Marsh
Just "Can't Get Over
Easy's Fence
Few years ago, Easy Roberts
took a lot of kidding when he
planted that hedge of Multiflora
rosea along his property line.
Folks said he was getting pretty
Mgh-falntin'.
Bat today plenty of people who
laughed at the idea slow down
when they drive by Easy's place
jnst to look at those roses. Most
beautiful sight you ever saw.
Practical, tool The hedge is a
good four foot high now, and at
least five foot thick even a shoat
couldn't get through that prickly
of shrubbery. Best of all, it
cost less than ordinary fencing.
(Might be well worth your while
looking into.)
From where I sit, there's no
sense in looking down on some
thing just because it's different
from what we like. For instance,
some people think ice-cold lemon
ade's the best "cooler-offer" on a
hot day. Some of us would rather
have a glass of beer. The impor
tant thing is not to "hedge our
selves in" against other people's
ideas and preferences.
Copyright, 1951, United States Brewers Foundation
sumed the first of the year.
Mrs. Julia Metzler of La Grande
visited friends in Heppner over
the week-end. She returned to
her home Monday.
Buyers are offering to buy wool
at 14 to 18 cents. So far no sheep
men have hold.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Coats of
Washington are guests at the
home of her son, Walter Corley.
Algott Lundell left Tuesday for
Portland where he will visit son
Wally and family. He will attend
the Elks convention in Astoria
while away.
J. O. TURNER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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Hotel Heppner Building
Heppner, Oregon
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