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The MILL CI I'Y ENTERPRISE MILL CITY, OREGON DON PKTERSON, Publisher Entered an »econd-claMH matter Novtnrtrar 10, 1944 at the post office at Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1879. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for $1.00. The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. NEWSPAPER X k PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION “THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” George Putnam. The New Year--1952 Soon the New Year will be here. The year 1952 inherits a peck of trouble ■from 1951. To the persons of cheerful outlook, 1952 looks like a good year, those troubled souls who live with a black cloud over their heads see nothing but gloom ahead. Excuse us, but W'e much prefer being hopeful. If the world were “going to pot” it would have done so in 1951! All the signs were "right”. Old 1951 muddled through. The new hope. '52, will have a full quota of days for our use. Even if time stands still for some, it will go on for millions of others. Each of us can look forward to the same number of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months in 1952. Yes, ’52 is a “Leap Year”. ¥ * * We note in passing to the year 1952 that some people so arrange their lives that “being grown” is very much a happy state of being. We say this because the ways of so many are so boxed in by a hodge podge of duties and events each and every day that all purpose of "why the game is being played is lost. The idea of casting off harmful habits and forming sensible ones should be a good foundation for New Year’s resolutions. If we could apply to our lives the searching light played by businessmen upon their wares while taking inventory, then it could be that 1952 would be a blessing. We need a measuring stick for the amount of damage or development done in 1951. Father Time's adding machine might well con vince a few of us that those who cast the most votes for a big, fine 19.>2 will get just that. ¥ ¥ ¥ Speaking of casting votes—1952 is also an "election year , Some think every year is an "election year”—most persons are not swept out with the tide on this score. Little doubt there is in any quarter but that 1952 will be a "hot” election year. The voter can not fail but note that 1952 is twenty years afteR that famous year, 1932. Regardless of how “fine” a depression is for some special interests—there is little hope in 1952 that these fellows will be made happy by a depression—1953 is another matter. We hope 1952 will see the end of that “grand old fraternity” that has long "bought its way" with our public servants while shouting loud and long how terribly corrupt these same public servants appear. Likewise we hope justice will he dealt fair and square on this score. The year 1952 should prove the same thing that all its brother and sister years did—namely all is not black, neither is it all white. There is quite a wide choice of colors in between. Relieving entirely the 'whites” or “blacks" story is putting too high a price on bad eyesight. ¥ ¥ ¥ The New Year always inspires a few predictions of the future. We lost our crystall ball somewhere. If the world situation would only clear up a bit, we might even go along with the star-gazer's harmless dreams. However, we'll bet that this old world is still in the universe come the end of 1952. We must admit that the way most of us look now—one wouldn't think that the end of 1952 will see us around, but we will bet there will be millions of humans who will be—at least reasonably so! We have soil scientists, atom scientists, and war scientists. We suggest that 1952 see human scientists take the world’s stage. It is about time John and Mary Doe really got thought about seriously by the "brains”. It just isn't nice—this business of being at the beck and call of that “here today, gone tomorrow" feeling. We need education in the science of living so that things are all for the best. Anyhow, the cries of the newborn infant are proof poeitive that "hope springs eternal"—1952 won't be any different or we'll be pretty confounded surprised! Ill E<jy S SUOI 339 N. High. SAI.EM Open Friday Night Til 9 December 27, 1951 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Editorial Comments: either side a spin, far from halting | inflation, simply speeds the spiral’s I climb. There are crescendo rumblings of a steel strike on New Year’s Eve. We trust the threat so far is no more than part of a strategy to force action by the price and wage stabilization offices, at the same time deploring the fact that labor-management rela tions have yet to progress to more civilized methods of negotiating a- greements than by threats of strikes in essential industries during a hot- and-cold war. But the steelworkers, like others, are feeling the pinch of prices and, now, of taxes. And they are, in ef fect, asking why their powerful union can’t get something really generous for them. They point to the Cape hart and Herlong amendments to the Defense Production Act which, they say, assure business and industry they need not absorb costs or lose profits. An only half-true assumption. But it gives steam to their demands. And their union says it wants a 15 cents hourly wage boost—far beyond pres ent ceilings—and makes 21 other de mands, some as "trading stock.” The industry says it will make no offer beyond the six cents an hour allowed by the current formula until it is told how much it may increase WHERE IS HORST SCHAFER THIS prices (a position it took during “re CHRISTMAS TIME? conversion” days.) Economic Stabi Horst Schafer is, or perhaps was, lizer Roger L. Putman declares he will a young shoemaker of Rosslau in the authorize no automatic price increase. Soviet zone of Germany. And he took So the pressures move from the the local communists at their word simple ones of “we want more” and when they announced a "free discus “we can't give it” to more complex sion meeting” under the auspices of leverages, including the government the so-called National Front. stabilization agencies and, indirectly; Horst went to the meeting, stood the worried public. up and declared: “I must say that the I We have sketched here a bleakly shoes of the state-controlled trading realistic picture of two great economic organization are not worth the money groups, each bent on protecting its and are made of inferior material.” own interests as best it can. But He then went on to say that since there is a larger interest involved. Germany was occupied by four for And we cannot feel that it is in the eign powers he couldn’t understand national interest for the steelworkers why, in the East Zone, one occupation to demand any more than that which authority was always praised to the will keep them even with the cost skies while the others were consist of living and with actual production efficiencies to which they contribute. ently damned. This was “free discussion” all We cannot feel that in these times right, but it wasn't what the Commun and in any industry, no matter what ists allowed. The meeting applauded the market, it should be assumed him, but pandemonium broke loose that price increases ought automati when police tried to arrest him. cally to follow wage increases. With the help of most of the audi-■ It is un to everyone to “absorb” ence Schafer managed to escape part of the inflation lest eventually Needless to say he did not go home inflation absorb most of what he where the police were waiting for him. earns and owns. And we urge the Next day Schafer tried to see Presi price and wage agencies to resist the dent Pieck to protest against the pressures from the steel dispute to police action. He did not see the the utmost. From Christian Science president but managed to obtain a Monitor. kind of safe conduct pass from a high police official. A few days later he YOlTH SERVES was asked to report to the local labor Sandwiched among the usual and exchange at Rosslau. He did. Horst i'j2usual misdoings of the younger Schafer has not been seen since. generation last week were three Where he will be on this Christmas stories which have a heartening—and Day no one knows and few would like heart-tugging—effect. to guess. There is no peace on earth In Oakwood, Virginia, Mrs. Charlie nor good will for Horst Schafer and the millions like him behind the iron Gilmore related that her son Ray mond went into the Army so that his curtain. Nor are there tidings of great joy pay might heln to feed his seven brothers and sisters and keep them in or mercy mild for the hundred thous and Americans who already have or school. At 19 he was killed in action His GI insurance policy will soon come to grips with the same in Korea foes of Horst Schafer on the fighting will provide “the only home we've ever owned," Mrs. Gilmore said. fields of Korea. Near Hermiston, Oregon, N. V. And all is not calm and far from bright in other lands where those who Ford was trapped 20 feet below would silence freedom are seeking to ground while digging a well. His son, bring more victims under their rule. Leon. 18, braced himself against But as free people we will observe boards above his father and for seven this Christmas in comparative safety, hours held the earth from caving in security and comfort. In our holiday while construction workers rescued will we remember to be thankful that them. we are not among the millions without At La Canada, California, Jimmy cause to rejoice? And will we re Jones, 8 years old, phoned the sheriff assert the Christmas message of hope after he heard a bandit take his father and peace to those who have neither. ' and mother from their home at night So that the sons of a shoemaker in to open a store Mr. Jones manages. Rosslau and a soldier in Korea may Deputies met the hold-up man at the someday share the joy that once long store, freed his captives, and arrested ago was promised to all the world by him. the Son of a carpenter in Nazareth. There are times when the harrassed Front The Oregon Teamster parents of many a brood of roister ing youngsters would “sell them BEHIND THE STEEL DISPUTE cheap." But give them a few years Since wages involve human beings, and practically every one will turn not merely statistical table-, it may be in some worthy action most of them great many.—From Christian neither just nor possible to freez.e that a side of the inflation spiral and then Science Monitor. smooth down the price side later. But it is crystal clear that giving It’s Your Newspaper—Subscribe Now IF IT ISN'T ’CREEPING SOCIALISM WHAT IS IT? When the government attempts to provide some form of welfare for people, that's "creeping socialism.” But when business benefits from government aid, what’s that? What’s the $28,631,500 in tax relief just granted by the Defense Produc tion Administration to the Copper Range Co. at White, Mich.? What's the $59,693,126 in tax relief handed out by DPA to Caterpillar Tractor Co.? And what of other big tax write-offs to B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co., Kaiser Aluminum and others? We see no full-page ads in newspapers describing how these tax write-offs are certain to weaken the moral and spiritual fibre of American business. W'e hear no flannel-mouth politicians pronounce that government should not do for business what business can and should do for itself. So maybe this is all okay and we have no objections. But let’s just watch out that the government sticks to handing out tax favors and RFC loans and things like that and dosen’t get to fooling around with helping people. Because that is what’s known as “creeping socialism,” Boo! From The Oregon Teamster "A Dog's Life" Hos New Meaning The life of the dog in America to day is a good one and getting better all the time from the standpoint of longevity and health, stated Dr. H.' H C. Stephenson, professor of thera peutics and small animal diseases at Cornell University, in the course of a veterinary symposium held in connec tion with the formal dedication of the recently-completed Gaines Research Kennels at Kankakee, Illinois. As one instance of what good man agement practices and new develop ments in veterinary medicine are able to accomplish, he cited the case of one kennel, run by a specialist in nutrition, which was able to carry each of 16 Scottish Terriers past the age of 14 years—a very advanced age in dogs. The establishment of whole blood nlasma banks, according to Dr. Step henson, is “a milestone in canine therapeutics” which has proved itself of great value when used on dogs in shock, in saving dogs involved in ac cidents, and in reducing the risks from anesthesia in operations. LICENSED GARBAGE SERVICE $1.50 per month and up Also serving Gates. Lyons. 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