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The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY. OREGON DON PETERSON. Publisher March 13. 1952 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE By Ed Nofziger JOE BEAVER Editorial Comments million of American economic and SENATOR MORSE ON ALASKA Sen. Wayne Morse gives the follow military aid. With revenues at 1951 ing reason for the Senate’s failure to rates and expenditures at 1952 rates, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for $1.00. the French treasury is nearing the grant statehood to Alaska: The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in “One of the great problems of Alas I end of its cash balance. And unless sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display ka today is that a few economic forces something like .M. Faure’s budget of Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. have practically a monopolistic stran 3,620 billion francs (about $10.4 bil ^NEWSPAPER glehold on the throat of Alaska. These lion dollars) is sustained, will Amer NATIONAL EDITORIAL forces in Alaska are today enjoying ican popular and congressional senti PUBLISHERS AsTocf^T some great advantages in tax bene ment support further extensions of aid? fits. ASSOCIATION This is a crisis in which Frenchmen “Statehood of Alaska would end the advantage these interests now enjoy must come to their own rescue. Just at the expense of the rest of the tax how, it would be presumptuous for an “THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES II \S NO FRIENDS." outsider to attempt to say. But there payers.—Oregon Teamster. —George Pu' am. are hopeful elements in the picture. One is the great solidity of character TAX LOOPHOLES . . . MANY, of the French common people, a qual LARGE AM) COSTLY ity often under-estimated by those The federal government loses more who talk of Gallic temperament. All of us want good schools and public buildings. The question is: How than $4.5 billion a year through tax But an element sorely needed is an do we go about getting them? That question is answered in the manner loopholes which benefit almost exclu increased sense of national solidarity. provided by law—the vote of the duly qualified voters of this community, sively persons with incomes of more The division among six major parties Carrie Nation flourished her hatchet in bar room after bar room until her than $10,000, Sen. Hubert Humphrey and many splinter groups in parlia fervor closed the saloons. The vote of the people brought her cause to (D., Minn.), stated in a study pub ment is symptomatic. The right-wing fruition. We have banged upon the doors of the citizens of this canyon lished Feb. 24 by the Public Affairs de Gaullists are playing with fire in Institute. in the cause of better schools repeatedly. joining the Communists to wreck cab The $5.6 billion tax increase bill of inet after cabinet of moderate coali All will go for naught if the citizenry of this impressive canyon area 1951, like almost every major tax bill do not take time out for a visit to the polling places Friday, March 28, tions. Tax reforms are as much We since 1943, “increased the inequities of needed as tax increases to convince This consolidation election will assume the motif of a town-meeting, want no bashful and backward citizens on this matter of schools for the existing law by widening existing French workers that the loads will loopholes and adding new ones,” Hum be equitably shared. canyon area. phrey said. It is a serious matter indeed if If we will succeed in the struggle for survival in this, a great future “The story is always the same,” he industrial area, we must step forward with some action. A vote for con declared. “Higher rates are imposed American planning must reappraise solidation, we regard as a step forward. Parents go where their offspring and at the same time loopholes are the wisdom of relying on France as have educational opportunities equal, if not better, than that offered else carefully framed which permit the the keystone of European defense. We where. A halting foot or a forgetful attitude Friday, March 26, can put wealthy to get out from under the do not believe the prospect is so dark its leaden weight in the scales of non-progress for the North Santiam com higher taxes. Now, after almost ten as that. But Americans, viewing a munity. There are no "gimmicks" in this election Friday, March 28; cast years, the loopholes are so many and secession of 11 cabinets under the Fourth Republic, must hope deeply your ballot. so large that they are costly. The that Frenchmen will find the means result is that the average taxpayer is of erecting a more stable regime.— paying taxes that should properly be From Christian Science Monitor. borne by those who are better able This Taft takes himself too seriously—he’ll grow some fine ulcers unless to pay.” BOYS OF DISTINCTION he can laugh at himself a bit. The recent New Hampshire election jolted Humphrey blamed the 1951 tax Some boys break into houses; other his “businessman's composure". Kicking the slats out of the present admin loophides on the conservative element istration was fun. We wonder if Taft can take it in the same measure in the senate which he said showed boys paint them—and not red, either. A little item in a Los Angeles paper he handed it out. It tickles our sense of justice that Taft, “Mr. Republican”, "favoritism” to business while “turn is reaping the harvest of some of the smutty seeds he has sowed with such ing a deaf ear" to pleas of labor ami tells of the boys of the Washington farm spokesmen who urged closing of High School Embassy club who heard a gallant hand. of a 76-year-old widow and her in Taft's obvious lack of stability under the pressure of the New Hamp the loopholes. valid son who had agreed when buy “ We cannot afford to let this trend shire election shows that the ideas of Taft and Taf’ooverism are not flexible enough for our time. Taft is not of the stuff needed for this quickening continue,” he said. “Nothing is more ing a house on installments that they world. We applaud the success of Ike. only because it racks one up against calculated to sow the seeds of distrust would take good care of it. But un in the democratic processes of gov able to do so, the new owners were Taf’ooverism. , Kefauver vs. Taf’ooverism is heartening. Results of the recent nation ernment than the knowledge that peo told by a building inspector that they ally spot-lighted election will be sifted carefully by democrats and republicans ple and business organizations are would not even have their gas turned alike. It is not possible at this time for an accurate tally of what New able to use their wealth and economic on until they had painted the house. So the boys did it. It took no Tom Hampshire’s citizens did in terms of November’s big event. Political science power to gain favored tax treatment.” Sawyer to paint for them the pleasure is a broad and sprawling study. Political scientists are having a field-day —Oregon Teamster. and privilege of whitewashing a fence this election year. in order to lure them to this more SPIRIT! AL MASSACRE OF ambitious task. Nor do we believe INNOCENTS One of the saddest, most tragic that we are painting too bright a phases of the communistic war for picture or whitewashing today’s teen the bodies and souls of the human agers when we say that the boys of race is the fate of thousands of chil the Embassy club are more typical dren; for example those evacuated of American youth than the delin from northern Greece to Red countries quents who make the headlines. Per haps what is needed is a little more in 1947. This case is particularly tragic be- headlining of this sort of action by cause as Alevis Kyrou of Greece re- genuine boys of distinction. — From cently stated, after five years in the Christian Science Monitor. schools of Bulgaria, Romania, Hun gary and Czechoslovakia, these once Greek children will neither be Greek nor children, but will have become out and out Communists. Very soon if To the Editor: In resigning my position as chief not already .these "children” will have been trained to turn Red weapons of police, I would like the townspeople against their own families and against to know I have enjoyed working with their own country: they will be “ready them. I want to thank all who had to fight for the enslavement of any part in making my job pleasant. Had working conditions been more Greece” as Mr. Kyrou stated. Of the Greek children thus torn favorable I would liked to have re from their parents, country, religion, mained in my position. I appreciate the co-operation the may well be spoken the words which the Church applies to Holy Innocents, people of Mill City gave me in support who were nut to death on the orders of the annual benefit dance, which of the iniquitous Herod: "A voice has made the Mill City police depart was heard in Rama, Rachael bewailing ment one of the best equipped depart Music by GATES LOCAL NOTES the loss of her children, and could ments of its size in the state. Additional thanks to the school chil not be comforted, because they are dren who have been very co-operative not.” Only in this case, the fate of these with the department in many ways. t I would like my many friends to children is far worse than death could know that I plan on remaining in be. Catholic Senitnel. Mill City. And I will give my whole FR \N('E IN SERIOl S TROl BLE hearted support to the betterment of Mill City. KENNETH W. HUNT. .......... “ Cabinet crises in France have come and gone all too often since VE day in 1945 and usually it has been To the Editor: Hope you can find space for this enough to explain that though cabi nets might fall, French government item which is of interest to many of went on. But a gradually deepening us.—C. M. PAULMIER seriousness has attended each of these City Council political convulsions, as has a con City of Mill City, Oregon Adults 75c, IIieh School Students 50c tinually worsening economic plight. Gentlemen: Consequently the fall of the gov This letter is in regards to the pro- 1 ernment of young Premier Edgar nosed City Ordinance which contem Faure after onlv 40 days of tussling plates the termination of Trailer with the republic’s financial problems Houses occupying private lots other i represents a crisis in the national his than established Trailer Courts. tory that cannot be described as less In the past few weeks I have cor than grave. Early in January his responded with the County Attorney predecessor, Rene Pleven, went to de- at Albany and also Mr. Ross, the Mill] feat in an effort to persuade the As- City Recorder in an attempt to obtain ( sembly to raise taxes 10 percent, Kis the substance of this ordinance. From i supporters warned that any sucre l sot the reply of Mr. Ross. I gather that ! government would have to demand as such an ordinance is in the drafting! much or more in order to keep Fiance stage and will soon be passed, thus requiring certain trailer occupants to solvent. M. Faure. who came to the premier change residence before July 1st next. ship from the finance ministry, hail to While 1 do not doubt the wisdom set his sights at 15 percent even after and necessity of such an ordinance in (Continued on Page 4) being assured of an additional $30 Entered a> iMtrond-claim matter November 10. 1944 at the poet office at Mill City, Orevon. under the Act of March 3. 1875 School Consolidation Forest Service, V. S. Department of A incultura “Of course I always wear this safety hat in the woods— I’m a loggerhead turtle!" ARK Kefauver vs. Taf’ooverism Editor's Letter Box I AHHI I II I M S REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. Also Thursday evenings by Appointment HOME OFFICE: 313 W. 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