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ENTERPRISE ; MILL Entered as eec-ond-elase matter November 10. 1*44 at th- post offlc« at Mill City. (>reKon, under the Act of March 3. 1*7* CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for $1.00. The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in ___. Display sertion. Errors in advertising shoul<l_ be renorted immediately, p: ~._‘ Advertising 15c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. national editorial PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION "THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” George Putnam. Women in the Services The nation-wide campaign to increase to 112.000 the number of women in the Armed Services has pointed up, once again, that manpower includes womanpower. At least it does as far as the Department of Defense is concerned. With the Armed Forces expanding to three and a half million by July 1952, the need for W'ACs, WAVES. Women Marines, WAFs, Nurses and Medical Specialists of all types likewise has expanded. Assigning women to jobs they can do so that nu-n in turn can concentrate on jobs that require men is simply a case of using manpower to the best advantage. Appealing especially to women in the 18-34 year age group who are high school graduates and have no dependents under 18 years of age, Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg has emphatically stressed the factor of SERVICE in the services. "The selected young women who have chosen to serve America in the Armed Forces have done so in the finest traditions of the Services, she said. "The demand for more women to fill more and more jobs is a sincere compliment to their ability, loyalty, and devotion to duty. The Reds Must Decide / In the larger sense Korea stands as a big question mark for both sides __ United Nations and the Reds. The United Nations knows what it must do in Korea—halt the advance of the Reds. The Reds are staggered by the show of force of the United Nations—thus the "cease-fire" talk. The original plans of the Reds have been stalled. The Reds, however battered their armies, are not in a state of positive submission. I he Reds must make a decision—more force and arms or let the whole thing grind to a halt. More Red force means greater United Nations force. For months now • “cease-fire" in Korea has been underway. It is said that the game in Korea is the old deal of using a program of first fight, second talk, and then fight again. The < hinese war-lords have used this stunt many times in their seemingly endless warfare and pillage. Stalin s World War II arsenal obviously is working on a stock of orders from the Korean front. These orders are being filled and (he materiel moved to the waiting Reds. The United Nations aircraft busy themselves with chopping up theae military supplies before they reach the hands intended. So tar the Reds must not have at their command all the modern military weapons and technique. The Reds, however, are doing the same as the United Nations—testing military equipment and exploring all phases of modern warfare. Whether or not Korea flames up or smolders is up to Stalin. If I nited Nations forces get bombed and machine-gunned wherever they be caught— then expect United Nations counter-blows on the Reds in Manchuria and other places now banned to U. N. planes. Present signs show Stalin is quite willing that more Koreas spring up in other parts of the world. Again, obviously the Reds are following the idea of spreading the I . N’.’s military might paper thin. The U. N. must gather strength and unity. Strength in numbers and arms—unity in its purpose—peace. < Support School Activities SOLICITORS WILL ( ALL ON YOU IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS FOR Advertising IN THE Mill City High School Annual It Pays to Advertise » , January 3. 1952 Editorial Comments MILL CITY. OREGON PON PETERSON. Publisher NEWSPAPER 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE a Rubber Footwear and Clothing Men's Work ('lot hi ng of obstacles General Eisenhower is meeting in the formation of an At lantic Pact army. Y et there is movement. Indeed, one reason for the traffic jam is that there is a confluence of movements, There has been no abandonment of the effort for political integration represented in the Strasbourg As sembly, although many thoughtful folk believe it can go little further until progress along nonpolitical roads has cleared the way. Needling by Americans has not facilitated partial surrenders of sovereignty quired. Britain's Conservatives as aloof as the Laborites, and luctant nationalism finds convenient delay in the conflict over methods. There is progress toward economic and military union. The Schuman Plan has been emphatically ratified by the French Assembly in a smash ing vote. Tfie six-nation conference of foreign ministers did not com plete arrangements for a European army, but did remove serious ob stacles and prepared ^he way for further progress at the Lisbon meet ing. And the Churchill-Eisenhower talks have produced a plan for Brit ish-American support of the Euro pean army. Under the arrangement, neither Britain nor the United States join in a European army, but both would closely co-operate with and aid such an army. The United States is al ready committed to military aid to Europe, and Britain, although still un willing to join the six continental powers, recognizes that their success in forming an army might promote British security. Besides, both na tions are joined with their continental allies in the North Atlantic Treaty force. There are many traffic jams and red lights on the road to European union. Success even for the Schu APATHY GOES TO SCHOOL man Plan and the European army We have recently drawn attention may not be in sight. Progress may in these columns to the difficulties prove to be too slow to meet the American schools are having in these desperate challenge of today. Yet days of inflation, rearmament, steel there is movement. And the physi shortages, population increases, de cal movement is but the reflection mands on the pocket book, and curbs of a movement of thought. There is on academic freedom. a popular instinct in Europe today A hopeful note is sounded in this that supports the logic of union. It dismal refrain by Roy E. Larsen, is forcing action even upon those who president of the National Citizens have a vested interest in separatism. Commissions for the Public Schools, The people of Europe have not for who asserts that popular apathy a- gotten that Hitler unified much of bout the schools is disappearing. Europe. They learned through that When the citizens’ commission was experience that local pride and local formed two years ago, he declares, trade were frail bulwarks. They no only a handful of communities had longer count national sovereignty organized groups working to help the and national security as synonymous. schools; now there are 1,600 such They feel—if they do not fully sense groups, and the number is increasing. the reason—that invention and mod This does not take into account the ern industry are making larger excellent parent-teacher associations 'states necessary, that the forces of of long standing, but it indicates the historical development are sweeping growth of public interest in the 1 them toward union. And a goodly schools. Unfortunately, this interest number realize that if they are to is exploited in some cases by organiza have union achieved by democratic tions with high-sounding names processes of consent instead of dicta which, in fighting communism or pro torial decree democracy must demon- gressive education nr both, throw j strate the vision, the discipline, and doubt on the whole school system. j the largemindedness which will per However, this is no more than an mit more rapid progress.—From alarmist fringe to a growing alertness I The Christian Science Monitor to the importance of education in American life. Public apathy is the CENSUS BUREAU TELLS WHO greatest of all enemies to the school HAS THE DOUGH system. As formerly apathetic par What Labor repeatedly pointed out ents visit the schools, learn their during hearings on the “spare the needs and problems, and participate rich” tax bill has now been confirmed in reputable civic groups to help win officially by the U. S. Census Bureau. support for them, there will be little Almost half the income in 1949 danger of this interest turning into went to only a fifth of the nation’s on destructive interference based population, They got 47 per cent of limited understanding of school ob- the total money income, The bottom jectives. fifth got only 3 percent, The second The intelligent collaboration of highest fifth got 24 per cent ; the professional and parental interest in third highest got 17 per cent; the public school education is the only . fourth highest got 9 per cent. guarantee of its keeping abreast of Put another way it goes like this; the times. From Christian Science The top two-fifths of the population Monitor. I between them got 71 per cent of the | income; that is, 40 per cent got the EUROPEAN UNION MOVES i big share, and 60 per cent got what The movement for a union of was left 29 per cent. That means, that if there were Europe •"■nears much of the time to he at a standstill. It gives the im only 100 neople in the nation, and if pression that there is no movement. the total money income for all in 1950 So does traffic halted by a red light. ; was $100. it would have been divided In the last few days any hasty I like this: 20 people got a total of glance would have discussed the stall $47; 20 others got $24: 20 others got ing at Strasbourg and general disap $17; 20 others got $9; the lowest 20 pointment over failures to set up any ■ spit up the rest —$3. Multiply that effective parliamentary body, would hv a thousand or a million, and be descriptions of the opposition to a ! ratio remains the same. Highest family income was in European army and the multiplicity GOOD UNION M AN IS GOOD < ITIZEN FIRST To be a good union man you must first be a good citizen, William Green, A FL president, declared in his New Year message to the eight million AFL mmbers. "To make 1952 a year of progress,” he said, “we must first make it a year of action. Giving a good day’s work on the job is not enough. All of us must devote some of our time to keeping informed on national and in ternational affairs and to political action. The present Congress has failed the nation “miserably,” he continued, but “if we make our voices heard and demand action . . . perhaps we can get some prompt correction of inadequate price controls and inequitable tax legislation.” The big opportunity, he said, is next November. He urged all to register and vote, to elect a liberal Congress. If that happens, he said, the Taft- Hartley act can be replaced by a fair law, price stabilization will match wage stabilization, there will be a de cent housing program, broader federal aid to the schools and medical educa tion, and perhaps even health insur ance. A liberal Congress, he pointed out, “would strengthen America’s hand in world affairs. It would convince So viet Russia that our country has the will to fight and the strength to fight in defense of freedom and inter national justice.” He concluded: “Surely the men and women of our labor movement will not forfeit such opportunities by de fault. Surely all of us can resolve on this New Year to serve together and to act together for a better America and a more peaceful world.” — The Oregon Teamster. A. F. L. Supports Defense Bond Drive t/Ö/zV 7Z4T /yfA&cH northeastern states, with an average I close to $3000; for the far west it was $2907; for north central states it was $2481, and for the south it was $1940. Average for the nation was $2599. According to the Census Bureau figures, 13.7 per cent of the families had a money income of less than $500 for the year; 56.8 per cent had less than $4000. In other words, in 1949. almost 14 families out of every 100 families had less than $500, and more than half the families had less than $4000.—From The Oregon Teamster. 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