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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1952)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY. OREGON DON PETERSON, Publisher Entered as »•cond-clas« matter November 10. 1944 at the post office at Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1979. 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. NATIONAL t EDITORIAL - Political Survey A slight glance at this week's issue of The Enterprise will soon convince •me that matters political have their sway. Each candidate feels that he •n she can qualify for the position sought. No doubt each can. The whole theory of our government makes this political picture possible. We grind our teeth often about there not being more political interest and sense on the state and national scene. As the teachers in our schools gain greater freedom of expression in matters political, so will the political barometer register a higher reading. The children of today must be taught that politics is a very important part not he shoved into the cellar of human of their daily lives. Politi termed the doings of guttersnipes and thought. Politics should is what the people of the United States ward-heelers. Politics can of America make it. ¥ ¥ ¥ We believe that men and women of 18 years of age and older should be allowed the vote. The education and civic know-how of these young men and women exceed that of the average voter today. The chalk line of 21 is something that can lie discharged in these times. We here deplore the shunting aside of the aroused political interest that our young people show. Through active political work young people gain a foothold on the workings of our form of government. This young and bouyant energy should be allowed full measure on the present political picture. We feel that the statement that politics is "dirty” is not the answer youth should get. Rather young men and women should be welcomed into the political arena where their great energy can have such a fine result. This is not a revolutionary idea in view of the fact that the leaders of our country in its early beginnings numbered many outstanding youths of the stature of Thomas Jefferson. ¥ ¥ ¥ Oregon, like the South, has a bad political complexion. Oregon has at times exhibited genuine traits of good . political sense. Such things have a way of getting perverted, however, when no attention is paid them. Oregon can no longer boast of its protection of the individual or its minorities. Rights melt away when little attention is visited upon them. The majority party in Oregon has silenced rather effectively outcries of abused individuals and minority groups. Political influence weighs a heavy hand in all the doings of our state government. Youth must reckon with this situation— either side with it or crusade. Editorial Comments , ident Roosevelt seized the Toledo, THE STEEL SEIZURE Peoria and Western railroad and the From The People’s Voice ■ Office of Defense Transportation ran Helena, Mont. I it for more than three years. In two recent widely publicized A federal district court has decided cases, Don Newcombe of the Brook that the President exceeded his con lyn Dodgers and Ted Williams of the stitutional authority in so acting and Boston Red Sox were ordered to the has enjoined further government con- army. Newcombe as an inductee and I trol of the steel mills. We are now Williams as a Reserve aviator. These J confronted by a shutdown of the entire two men are sacrificing two years of I steel industry, 20% of whose produc the most productive earning power of tion goes directly for national defense a relatively short earning period in and much of the remainder indirectly baseball to serve their country. into supplies for the support of the Also recently the Miners and Smel i Korean war. termen of this state (Montana) were The assertion of an unlimited "in dissatisfied with their wages and herent power" of the President is working conditions and decided to dangerous to labor and to business strike. In order to prevent a short alike. But who is to blame for the age of copper the President invoked crisis now facing the nation? the Taft-Hartley law and the strikers The blame must be placed square were ordered back to work and en ly upon the failure of Congress to joined from striking for a period of act in a wise and statesmanlike W0 days. The Mine-Mill union obeyed manner and to enact proper legisla the judicial and administrative orders tion to handle such a crisis. and they went back to work. Under the Constitution all powers Now we are confronted with a crit ical situation in the steel industry. of administration are reposed in the This time the steelworkers are satis President. He has the responsibility fied with the decision of the Wage to make executive decisions that keep Stabilization board, and will accept the i the federal government alive. If there wage increase the government fact i were no legislation whatsoever re- finding agency has given them, but I garding the drafting of men, the use the employers refuse to accept the of the nation's labor supply in a time administrative decree and refuse to of national emergency the Executive bargain further. In order to prevent could act in any way that was not a national catastrophe the President specifically prohibited by the Consti ordered the employers to continue tution. But likewise, under the Con production and when this order was stitution it is the duty of Congress refused he seized the steel mills under to enact implementing legislation and claimed “inherent power” of the exec prescribe the way in which the Presi utive to act to preserve the nation in dent shall exercise his administrative authority, Congress has done this in a time of national emergency. This action of the President’s has respect to securing men for military many precedents to support it. Pres service by such laws as the Selective ident Lincoln issued his Emancipation Service Act. So that no matter what Proclamation without congressional their personal sacrifice Don New authority. President Wilson threat combe or Ted Williams or GI Joe must ened to seize the strikebound Reming answer the higher call of duty to their ton Arms Co., and the strikers ac- country and go into the armed serv quiessed. During World War II Pres- ices. The Taft-Hartley law provides the machinery for forcing labor to con tinue to work in essential industries when the country’s need demands it. The present situation highlights the To the Editor: Since the battle for grocery ads in inequities and the one-sidedness of the our local paper has been going on I Taft-Hartley law. Here is labor will think we have all become a little ad ing to work under the conditions laid vertising conscious, bqt have you | down by governmental fact finding paused long enough to contemplate a boards and it is the employer who is bit upon your own and other people's holding back and the only remedy is reactions to the various types of ad to force labor to work. Surely there vertising put before us? There are is merit in the President’s refusal to punish labor for the failure of the ads we like and those we don’t. At a party recently some one turned mill owners to do their patriotic duty. the pages of a current ladies maga Instead he declared that Congress had zine to a full page ad for Arrow failed to provide any machinery to shirts. Everyone laughed heartily, use against the employers when they the single men with a smugness as engage in a strike that imperils the though they would consider no other safety of the nation and invoked brand, the married men with just a claimed inherent power. If it is constitutional to pass the smugness, or were they just consid- Railway Labor act that forces railroad ering? Most advertising is directed toward employees to work under conditions women but there are ads for Spring . _ that are unsatisfactory to the mem Maid sheets that appear frequently bers of the Railroad unions, if it is on the back cover of a man’s maga constitutional to force individuals to zine, that is strictly for male minds. make tremendous sacrifices to go into I am sure this ad accounts for the the armed services, it would be con presence of this magazine in many stitutional to require that industry homes, and is sure fire if you would to keep its plants in operation under like to make your grandmother blush-' conditions that were less ideal than But Congress has We tolerate radio advertising, re it would like. sent advertising on the screen, and failed to enact any legislation that consider newspaper classified ads an will permit the President to seize an absolute necessity to our way of life industry that is essential to national Right now we are fighting for defense when it is the employer that weekend special ads for groceries to is at fault. As a result of this failure be published in the local paper. We to provide for such an emergency the believe the resulting competition President has declared that he can act would bring about price levelling, as in any way that is reasonable and well as better business practices. justified under the conditions with Many of us will continue to bu-^ out- which he is confronted, in order to of-town until our businessmen decide preserve the safety of the people of the United States. to co-operate. In its anxiety to pass a one-sided A short time ago I was in the local post office shortly after certain ad and unfair labor law Congress has vertising was distributed. The way brought upon the nation a complete people received this bit of advertising breakdown of steel production. If we survive this crisis and secure a was quite enlightening. Two small boys rolled theirs into decision of the I nited States Su hard paper balls and threw thFm at preme Court defining and delimit each other. Several people dropped ing the extra-ordinary powers of the President some good may come out theirs in and around the waste basket One lady tore hers to shreds and mut of the whole sorry situation. tered a mild word that was a bit But Congress must take the respon strofiger than slang. sibility of imperiling the safety and Mine? The wind whipped it from security of the nation by its wanton my hand and it drifted off into a failure to act. It can in some meas puddle while I stood by slightly glassy ure remedy the situation by immedi eyed and poetic: ately considering the bills in Senator Murray’s committee on education and If you’ve got a Model T I might ride with you for laughs. labor and pass laws providing the legal machinery for the seizure of Or. I might go out canoeing vital and essential industries whose Tho’ you’ve only got a raft; You may take me to the bull fights management have neither the vision nor the patriotism to recognize their Tho’ the bull is just a calf; duty to the nation. It would be bet But, hand me no sheet ter if such legislation had been coolly From a mimeograph! (Continued on Page 3) ELSIE. Editor's Letter Box From where I sit... // Joe Marsh May », 1952 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE — GET YOUR QUALITY JOB PRINTING AT THE ENTERPRISE — Him DR. MARK hAHUilKIMS 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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