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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1952)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Editorial Comments DON PETERSON, Publisher POINT FOUR LEADERSHIP ing to do, at home as well as abroad. Entered an ureo n<l-cl a mm matter November 10. 1 *♦ 44 at the post office at One of the best things about the We wish him well.—From Christian Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879 Point Four program is the way it has Science Monitor. kept contact with grass-roots realities. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for »1.00. ARAB OIL MONEY Under the able leadership of Henry The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than owe incorrect in sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display G. Bennett it drew heavily on the ex A year and a half ago the Arabian Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. perience of the Urrited States farm American Oil company signed an extension services, sending experts to agreement with King Ibn Saud of NEWSPAPER NATIO N A L EDITORIAL far parts of the world to demonstrate Saudi A«-sbi«i giving him a 50-50 divi \ PUBLISHERS —like the American “county agent”— sion of profits from oil developments how to increase productivity. in his country. Now there are re ASSOCIATION __ L__JF >’inwitrn-a Since Dr. Bennett’s untimely loss in ports that the king’s ministers are a plane crash in Iran last December asking that this be calculated before THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” we have waited for reassurance that rather than after United States taxes, —George Putnam. the program would continue under that half the concessions be given up similar enlightened leadership along unless rapidly developed, and that up the same fruitful lines. There is al to half the membership of the board ways danger that the simple sharing be Arabs. Children today are being educated for a way of life of know-how may be swallowed up in Since the Aramco agreement was that simply does not exist in the United States today. The plans for more grandiose and less cited by comparison as a ground for putting into operation of a “cosmitron” in a New England practicable economic or military aid discontent in Iran, this dickering in research center makes this fact painfully clear. Saying projects. Now the appointment of dicates there is no easy ceiling on Andrews, former Arkansas asking prices in Oriental bargaining, that scientists are ahead of their time is not a wise answer. Stanley farm editor and experienced adminis Another facet of the affair is the It is necessary that children grasp the situation into which trator in various food and agriculture question of what becomes of Middle they have been born. Life today, for example, sees projects, as successor to Dr. Bennett Eastern oil profits if and after west holds out hope of a reasonable con- ern companies make generous terms greater and greater need for recreation. of purpose. with countries in that region. Con- Just a few years ago atomic research got underway. tinuity This year 900 technical experts have sidering the poverty of millions of Of course, we all have heard of the atomic bomb. The been sent out under Point Four; next people there, if would be gratifying mystery of the atom rapidly unfolds. The average year, if Congress approves, there may to see their conditions improved by student is ignorant of this strange new world. Public be 1,500 more. But these men and oil wealth. women must be expert in more than But to what extent does that follow? information sources are woefully negligent in educating agronomy, engineering, civil service. The government of Saudi Arabia is children and their parents about our present new world. public health, etc. They must be ex- about as near an absolute monarchy Because, of this, and without knowing why, officials all pert in public relations, in political as exists in the world today. Most over are faced with big problems in youth recreation. realism, in understanding and work- of the rest of the Middle East is ing with people of vastly different feudal. And while hundreds of mil It seems silly now, but once upon a time youth got background and convictions. Only so lions of dollars in royalties flow to their recreation in such things as ‘‘husking bees”. The can their “assistance ” be made effec- the sheik of the tiny realm of Kuwait, ‘‘husking bee” got the neighbor’s corn shucked in apple- tive. vast expanses of the Arab world have pie order midst hearty laughter and good sport. Today, Hence the importance of the county no known oil deposits. in our time of large population, such activity is out of agent type of expert, with a healthy From one Middle Eastern capital, of grass-roots experience. Baghdad, comes word that the gov the question. More and more will this hold true as background Dr. Bennett once figured that 50 such ernment of Iraq is making serious science makes more free time for the individual. With agents, introducing the system of plans, with British and American ad- the “cosmitron” man dips deeper into the universal United States farm extension serv- vice, to apply 70 per cent of its large mystery that has fretted him since his beginning. The ices to India, could end that country’s oil income to public improvements push-button idea is no longer an idea—it is in use in our threat of famine in five years. But such as reclamation, flood control, re as huge resistances would have forestation, road building, public everyday life. Children must quickly grasp the idea just to be overcome in India for such a health, education, and industrial de that their lives need not be that of ignorant drudges. program to be acceptable, so political velopment. We must, in capsule form, parade the real world before resistances in the LTnited States have The test even of this kind of pro children. Television can do this. We must see that the to be overcome in order to enlist the gram will lie in how it is carried out necessary support for a program over a period of years. But the moral truth comes out on those television screens. whose benefits to America may not be case of Middle Eastern governments Children must be taught so that they fit smoothly immediately apparent in terms of cold for a favorable division of the returns into life all about them. The horrors of war need not war and cold cash. from their oil resources will rest very be visited upon people after the present generations have Mr. Andrews has a big job of sell- largely on the degree to which they put those returns to work for the passed. Just as we have the physical law of gravity so people in general, not just for a small we have also the social law that war is not the path of clique.—From Christian Science Mon a better way of life for mankind. Children all over the itor. (Continued from Page 1) world must gain a broad knowledge of what life can be. courteous as possible. I took no EXHIBIT A The beauty of our government must be exhibited before and interest in what the school affairs “ I paid everybody. Everybody,” youthful audiences all over the globe. Totalitarianism were when I came here, but upon com said Harry Gross, the convicted New germinates, takes root and grows in the debris of ignor plaint from readers I have «ttemp»^] y^k"'^bfer ance, poverty and disease; it is watered by the slime of to investigate their complaints. At to “sing.” Which pretty well sums lying propaganda. To exterminate it, remove the causes that time I directed my editorial up his story to date of how be dis Mr. Tom Courtney to check bursed $1,000,000 a year in bribes to that accumulate ignorance, poverty and disease and fear writer, up and get any information he could. "protect” a $20,000,000 bookmaking lessly turn on the light of truth. Tom Courtney was part-time pastor “business.” of the Christian church at that time Gross is serving a sentence of 12 and had no reason to be biased in years for bookmaking, conspiracy, and opinion. He soon found it advisable contempt. He admittedly hopes by to leave my employ when his wife way of his testimony to get his sen was subjected to pressure and abuse tence reduced. He might be paying The ch*in on your TITAN power by at least one teacher who is still off old grudges by implicating some saw will cut faster and stay sharp here. honest policemen he couldn’t “reach” longer. TITAN ‘‘silver-tipped'* I have always welcomed letters as well as accusing dishonest officers chains are hard chrome plated on from anyone stating their views and he must despise. But one need not the cutting edge for longer wear the school officials have had that same believe every word of this detailed between filings. TITAN bars are opportunity. recital to find oneself confronted with • • • made of high alloy steel, precision the most extensive exhibit thus far of finished. Ask us, your nearby, relia I found the following items of build- | what happens to law enforcement ble TITAN dealer, for all details. ing fund expense which may be of when commercialized vice is allowed interest to you: to grow into big business. $ 27,293.02 Ijtbor . And one need not assume that every i 3,853.84 Pay roll taxes policeman or police force is corrupted j 260.63 Miscellaneous in order to deduce that Americans 29,809.01 Building materials face a grave problem of official in 103,397.22 Material on contract tegrity among those who must be M : IS Hauling trusted to protect society from the vul 852.50 Tool rent tures as well as from the wolves. For | 736.20 “Cat" work the Gross story fits into the pattern 87.23 Telephone of grand jury findings and of the 18.30 Light- sordid panorama unrolled before the I $167.231.13 TOTAL hearings of the Kefauver committee. , Total available in sinking funds and Is police corruption the result of from bond issues was: “big time" vice? Or do underworld $ 43,921.65 rings proliferate in the soil of police Sinking fund and int. 10.000.00 venality? Budgeted • 102.S00.00 Bond issue This is no futile hen-or-the-egg j $156.721 65 query, The answer to both questions ( TOTAL This leaves a deficit of $10509.48 is Ye», And one question cannot be i compared with the auditor’s report in answered without the other. 1950, which allowed a deficit of $10,- The price of decency, like that of 497.83 (Continued on Page 8) .'> s Q!‘5S0':5"? n May 22. 1952 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE — GET YOUR QUALITY JOB PRINTING AT THE ENTERPRISE — »■ fflditt imi.J!-: • DR. MARK IAHHIIIÍIAFS 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. FIRST. ALBANY Needed Education ' SM.EM 141 N. 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