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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1950)
( In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The teletypes chattered out this statement: "The United States it indulg ing in an Indian summer day dream while a business storm is brewing." YOU'D think, naturally, that statement was made by some hard-boiled, reactionary repub lican. It wasn't. The speaker is Dr. Edwin C. Nourse, former chairman of the U. S. council of economic advisers to the presi dent. He was participating in a panel discussion arranged by the American Society of Tool Engi neers in Philadelphia. He added: "If we are to avoid a depres sion EACH SEGMENT OF OUR ECONOMY MUST PUT THE COUNTRY'S WELFARE ABOVE SHORT-RUN GAINS FOR THEIR PARTICULAR CON STITUENTS." IF THE best use is to be made of our resources, so that sound prosperity may continue, Dr. Nourse went on, "business, fi nancial, agricultural and labor leaders must help develop and carry out an INTEGRATED pol icy of private and public aco nomic activity." But, he added, that isn't being done. Instead, he told his hear ers: "THEY ARE BEING EN COURAGED TO FEEL THEY CAN USE ORGANIZATION AND POLITICAL POWER TO GET SEPARATELY MORE OUT ' OF THE SYSTEM THAN THEY ARE SEVERALLY PUTTING INTO IT." WHAT we need, Dr. Nourse is telling us, is TEAMWORK. That suggests a question: Did you ever do your spring plowing with a three (or maybe five) horse team? If so, you'll re member that at the beginning your horses were all prima don nas. Each thought it was the whole works and the others were merely hitched in to provide an audience. If there were three horses in the team, they went three different ways at the cor ners. If there were five horses, they went FIVE ways. All the way around, they worked against each other instead of with each other. As a result you didn't get much ground plowed the first few days. If you turned under an acre and a half a day, you were doing pretty well. But, as the days passed, things began to go better. Your horses slowly began to work AS A TEAM, when you came to a cor ner, they would swing just far enougn out into tne plowed ground to give you turning room without spoiling your furrow. (Usually, by the way, one horse would act as a kind of sub foreman. This would be some animal that was SMARTER than the rest. It would figure out what you were driving at and would chivvy the others around so that the corners would be turned i with the least loss of time. That : is what in industry we call or I eanization.) As soon as your horses began to work as a team, your effi ciency would RISE and in a lit tle while you would be turning over your three or maybe three and a half acres a day, which was pretty good going in those oenignted days Before trie in ternal combustion engine was in vented, thus making the tractor possible. A NYWAY. Dr. Nourse is telling us that if we want to accom plish a lot in this country PRO DUCE a lot, that is, so that every body can have a lot we must work as a team instead of work ing as separate pressure groups. each seeking to get for itself the bulk of the cream, leaving only the skim milk for the other groups. LORD MACAULEY, the great English historian, told us the same thing a century and a half ago. using somewhat different words and putting it in a some what dilterent way. In one of his fascinatingly in teresting letters to an American friend he said (ineffect. that is these are not his exact words): Your American system is the most wonderful thing that ever came into the world. As it is working now, it is producing for Americans more satisfactions and more comforts than any govern mental system ever produced since the world began. It will continue to do that un til your people learn that by ganging up in pressure groups they can use their voting power TO' GET FOR THEMSELVES Klamath Agriculture Income in Decline SPECIAL PAYMENTS AND SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS OUT OF THE NATIONAL TREASURY. When that happens (Lord Macauley said) your American system will cease to produce for everybody as it is going now (he was speaking a century and a half ago). His words were at least prophetic. Railroad Seeking Owner of Valuables Portland. Ore.. Apr. 13 (U.R) Snecial aeents for the Union I Pacific railroad today are look-! ing for an elderly man whose I name was found in an abandoned suitcase containing gold coins and bond coupons aboard the City of Portland streamliner Sept. 16, 1949, when the train reached Chicago-. August Wemme, Wabash noiei, Portland, was the name and ad dress found in the large metal suitcase, but a check with the hntol vua neontive. The suitcase was opened this week. L,asi leDruary it ra police were asked to find an a u;an,Yn p It whn was nuguai ii cluing, , last known to be living at the waDasn noiei. ine roiurai ' frnm Oenrffe SauDDe of Pasa dena, Cal., but Sauppe gave no relationship data in connection witn tne anen oi ucnuon descent. Visitors Unwelcome At Nudist Convention Oregon City, Ore., Apr. 13 flip) 5iohteprs will not be wel come during the July 4 holiday convention oi nuoisis irom uir gon, Washington, Idaho. Mon tana, and British Columbia, D. E. Countryman said here today in announcing the date of the region conference. Countryman said snoopers will be dealt with if they are caught by any of the 500 members at the sunbathers' Squaw mountain ranch near Estacada, Ore. Klamath Falls, Ore.. Apr. 13 (U.R) Klamath County Agent Charles Henderson reported to day that Klamath basin agricul tural income continued its de cline during 1949 from its 1947 peak. Henderson's figures showed crop-livestock income in the ba sin for 1949 at $29,541,276. By comparison, the 1948 income was $30,844,427 and the 1947 income neak was $36,915,794. Last year's crop-livestock income was about the same as mat lor i-o. Klamath basin's malor farm products include beef cattle, brewing barley, alsike clover, russet DOtatoes, alfalfa, wheat, oats, grass seed, onions, poultry, dairy products, nogs, and sneep The big four products of cat- Woodburn, Ore., Apr. 13 U.R) Fred Evenden, retired Woodburn druggist, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 63 years old. Woodburn, Ore., Apr. 13 (U.R) Ground was broken Tuesday for the new Woodburn high school building. tie, barley, clover, and potatoes accounted for about 75 per cent of the 1949 income. Thursday, April 13, 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Dikes in Columbia Below Standard Portland, Ore., Apr. 13 (U.R) Columbia river dikes and levees' are below government standards in view of expected high water next month, the corps of engin eers reported here today. Col. Donald S. 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