The MILL CI I'Y ENTERPRISE
MILL CITY, OREGON
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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