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The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Editorial Comments 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE October 1«. 1952 THE REPUBLICAN MESS 1921 -1933 THOSE WILD PROMISES OF may confuse his “yes” and “no” pen TAX CI TS ciling. There is nothing for friends of Ore One of the great political myths of the current campaign is to the effect gon’s highway system to do but to CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for »1.00. The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in that the Republicans can make drastic j tell the voter, then tell him again— sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display cuts in federal expenditures, both civ-! and perhaps again: Advertising 45c column inch. Pc'.itical Advertising 75c inch. Vote 318 X YES. ilian and military. Vote 331 X NO. And How The Democratic Party First General Eisenhower talked NEWSPAPER And hope on November 4 the voter about a cut of $40 billion. This pro PUBLISHERS Cleaned Things Up posal was too much even for Senator comes up with the proper marking Taft, who promptly challenged it on the ballot. We are confident he ASSOCIATION (This is the second of a series of articles contrasting the Later, after the great reconciliation ' will.—From Oregon Journal. mess created in Washington by the Republican Party from between Eisenhower and Taft, they J "THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” THE NEWSPAPER SWING agreed that a »20 billion cut, in two 1921 to 1933 with the Democratic Party’s achievements —George Putnam. TO STEVENSON »10 billion bites, would be more like it of the past 20 years.) Some of the nation’s most distin This was promptly challenged by THE DEMOCRACTIC RECOVERY Governor Stevenson who, while boast guished and thoughtful newspapers THE G.O.P. ( RASH In the famous first Hundred Days ing that he is tight-fisted with a tax are swinging to Gov. Stevenson. They Millions of present-day Americans Mark Twain is credited with having said, “Everyone dollar, is realistic enough to know that are joining what Stevenson calls “the were yet unborn in the black Repub of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administra 10 per cent” of the lican year of 1929, and millions of tion—from March 4 to mid-June of talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about the United States will have to adjust discriminating budgets to the world situation, nv press which is supporting the Demo others were too young in ’29 to have 1933—American business got a series it I” This great gentleman might have gone a little deeper its matter how attractive tax cuts may be. | cratic presidential ticket. first-hand recollection today of of shots in the arm that turned a fear on this subject of weather. He could have said that He therefore makes no wild promises The Los Angeles Daily News an any the Great Crash. Those of us who ful economic retreat into the beginning weather is so important that people just cannot help The U. S. News and World Report nounced for Stevenson recently. So were grown-up in those days remem of an era of unexampled prosperity. On that March 4, with every bank talking about it. People don’t talk about the weather the (with its pro-Eisenhower editor, David did the Santa Barbara News and the ber plenty. the country closed, Roosevelt in his way they’re supposed to gossip about their neighbors. Lawrence) takes some of the guff out three McClatchy newspapers, at San Under the Republicans we had had in First Inaugural Address assured the ramento, Fresno and Modesto. of the Eisenhower-Taft promises. as Presidents, successively, the unfor Fear isn’t the reason we talk about weather. It isn’t nation that “plenty is at our doorstep" The Louisville Courier-Journal and “ Taft-Eisenhower promise (note it tunate fumbler Warren Gamaliel communistic, socialistic, Republican, or Democrat. It puts Taft first) to cut spending from Times went for Stevenson September Harding with his “back to normalcy” and pledged “action now.” Five days does produce changes in our hides, however. Oregon’s $79 billion to »70 billion, then to $60 25. The New Orleans Item also hit and his Ohio Gang, the do-nothing later Congress, in special session, weather is getting under the skins of,the “Moss-backs". billion sound good, but may be diffi the Stevenson trail, The Atlanta “Silent Cal” Coolidge, and finally the needed only four hours to pass the This long drouth has them scratching in puzzlement. cult to fulfill. Cuts of that size, if Journal, largest newspaper in the “Great Engineer,” Herbert Hoover, Administration’s Emergency Banking Act, and in a few days those banks Twain was poking fun at our lack of means of made, will have to center in defense." South, went for Stevenson the other who was at the throttle when Amer that had been found to be in safe con The magazine then estimates that day. The Atlanta Constitution had ica tumbled into the greatest panic reaching up into the sky and plucking out rain, wind and »3.4 billion might be cut out of the previously made the plunge. dition began to reopen. of all time. sunshine. This wit would be amazed at the progress »58 billion defense and foreign aid The St. Louis Post-Dispatch which We had been riding high for a few The Road Back man has made in doing something about the weather, budget by drastic action. It then has won more Pulitzer prizes than any 1 years. Especially those who played Roosevelt proposed, one after an specifically his mechanical means for creating “good” points out that drastic cuts in the »21 other American newspaper made up j the market. It was the easiest thing other, the Agricultural Adjustment billion non-defense budget appear very , ’ its mind to go for Stevenson two in the world. All you had to do was Act, a vast program of direct relief, weather in homes and places of work. The weatherman’s unlikely of Eisenhower’s ac-1 weeks ago. scrape up a little money, buy stocks the Civilian Conservation Corps, the patient charting of storms and weather “fronts” has ceptance in of light the social security and And in Oregon the nominally Repub- on margin, and watch them climb. Public Works Administration, the Se largely taken the surprise away from weather changes. farm aid programs and fixed costs ( | lican but independent Medford Mail Anybody who mentioned that the curities and Exchange Commission, Oregon’s great outdoors has the tang of autumn now. such as veterans’ aid and interest on Tribune swung into the Stevensson stocks weren’t worth anything resem and the Tennessee Valley Authority. All who enjoy this dry, sunshiny weather these days will national debt. | column October 5 after being “de> bling their prices was marked down He told the Home Owners Loan Corp, “Big spending by- government seems serted” by Eisenhower, its first choice as a killjoy who was selling America to slow down foreclosures. He took long remember it. Fortunately Oregon has so many here if defense is kept up,” I against Senator Taft in pre-convention short. Certainly Coolidge showed no the United States off the gold stand streams that bathtubs and green lawns are still in vogue. the U. to S. stay, News concludes. worry. Professor Irving Fisher of ard, in a move to increase foreign I and convention days. Moss-backs need not get too incrusted with scale. There’s quite a difference between Robert W. Ruhl, pulitzer prize-win Y’ale pontificated that the market had trade and raise prices. He signed the the possibility of cutting »3.4 billion ning editor of the Mail Tribune, put climbed to “what looks like a perma act that provided for insuring all bank from our national budget which the nently high plateau.” deposits up to $5,000. And he called it this way in a signed editorial: U. S. News thinks possible and the for creation of the National Recovery “ We believe those voters who don ’ t Forest fires and politics have kicked our favorite sub »20 billion cuts Eisenhower and Taft want Taft reaction and isolationism, A Resounding Crash Administration, the famous “Blue Just how wrong a professor can be Eagle” organization through which the ject, flying saucers, from the front pages. Don’t let that are holding out. who don’t believa in the McCarthy- fool you, however, they’re still nosing around. New One can only conclude that prom Jenner doctrine of the ‘big lie’, who was demonstrated on the floor of the late Gen. Hugh Johnson exhorted and ises of tremendous cuts in federal ex j don’t want a change just for the sake New York Stock Exchange in October cajoled the stagnating business com Zealand is all lathered up about them now. Since the penses and November of 1929, when the munity of America into some sem are for political purposes only. of change regardless of the confusion atomic tests by England in that area “saucers” have —From Oregon Journal. “plateau” slid into an abyss with a blance of the vigor and enterprise that and moral retrogression such a change been sighted. This tie-in of “atomic tests” and saucers resounding crash that was to reverb business had almost forgotten were its would involve—we believe the people erate for years in the farthest reaches traditional hallmarks. WHEN TO VOTE ‘YES’ AND has occurred time and again. Even the Soviets are who feel this way should not vote fot WHEN mt losing sleep over these “things”. All these things were done in a Eisenhower and Nixon, but for Steven of the world. The bigwigs of Wall Street and of hundred days. An attorney was once asked the son and Sparkman. Flying saucers have been called by us, “conscience secret of his success with juries. The Great Depression was not, na “Above all we can see no reason Republican Washington did all they saucers”. We have credited these unexplained doings as “Well,” he replied, “I tell the jurors , why there should be talk about ‘de could think of to check the disaster. turally, wiped out between March and dealings with our so-called subconscious. It is possible what I’m going to tell them. Then. sertion’ when the Mail Tribune never New York bank presidents pooled June. But the tide was turned. Busi that beings farther advanced than we are guiding us I tell them. Then I tell them yhat deserted Eisenhower, but Eisenhower many millions to support the market ness, and people generally, got new Hoover announced In October that "the help and new hope. And as the years carefully towards peace. These beings may be in our I’ve told them. Then they come in deserted the Mail Tribune and all fundamental business of the country* passed, the tide of improvement be with a verdict for my client.” other independent and liberal voters midst; “saucer” sightings being merely their means of But it is a tougher problem for was “on a sound and prosperous ba came a tidal wave. There was, to be of his party.” directing our natural curiosity. The motive for bringing those who are explaining the two Again we say we are glad to have sis.” A few months later he said we sure, a slight recession in late 1937 peace on earth is obvious. Atomic power recklessly loosed truck bills on the November 4 ballot such distinguished company as the had “turned the corner.” And that and early ’38. But thereafter recov upon the world reasonably could “poison” a goodly seg in Oregon. Medford Mail Tribune, the St. Louis shows how wrong a Republican Presi ery carried American business, and More than a simple “ yes ” or “ no ” the American people, to levels of well Post-Dispatch and the other great dent can be. ment of the Universe and make it uninhabitable for life is called for. being that had hardly been dreamed of newspapers named above. We be What Happened To Business in forms as yet undiscovered by us. It gives pause for One measure calls for a "yes” mark; j lieve their swing to Stevenson is sym- [ Black Ink of Prosperity Here is what happened to business thought that our conduct is being molded intelligently by the other demands a “no.” ptomatic of a trend to Stevenson and between 1929 and 1932: Statistically may be dull, but the That is, unless Oregon voters want of general disillusionment with the wise and good beings hoverings about us. few that follow, written in the rich Factory output was cut in half. to wreck the state highway system and Following this line of thought, we predict the election pay the share of taxes which should Eisenhower campaign.—From Oregon The total value of finished goods black ink of prosperity, have a peculiar Journal. of the candidate for president who most intelligently will be and services produced by American eloquence: paid by the long-haul truck lines. By the end of 1951 the index of handle the problem of the atomic power of the United It’s that serious! business fell 46 per cent from »91 PILES factory production was four times billion in 1929 to »51 billion in 1932. States and of the atom in the councils of the free nations In support of house bill 465, passed as high as in 1932—and more than (Hemorrhoids) Profits disappeared and corpora of the world. Further, those Congressmen up for by the legislature but held up by the tions went into the red by »3.4 bil double the previous peak reached in truckers ’ referendum, the voter should Fistula, Fissure, Itching, Prolapse, election, whose records reflect ignorance in atomic vote “yes.” The ballot number is and other Rectal disorders corrected. lion in 1932. 1929. matters, will be defeated, of such are Senators Cain and 318 X YES. The value of the goods and serv Securities fell to one-fifth their *Mild Treatment Jenner. ices produced by business, which was 1929 values. To defeat the so-called “equitable* Call for examination or write $51 billion in 1932 (the equivalent tax measure which would handcuff the While business floundered, human of »106 billion in average 1951 for Free Descriptive Booklet. legislature from taxing the longhaul beings suffered. One farm in four prices), is today in excess of $290 Don’t become incurable, by delay. trucks fairly and "equitably.” the vot was sold for taxes. By 1933 there billion—nearly three times as great er must vote a resounding “no”. The R. REYNOLDS. N.I). were 15 million unemployed. Bread in physical quantity as 20 years ago. pencil must hit the line, 331 X NO. meigm arold lines, apple vendors, shantytowns and nearly double the peak business Rectal Specialist The ballot marking will require in called Hoovervilles, were the order of output of 1929. 2073 Fairground-. Rd.. Salem. Oregon telligent action. Otherwise the voter the day. Banks folded by the thous In 1932 America produced 13.7 ands, leaving depositors ruined. Build million tons of ir.got steel. The rate ing ceased. Andy Mellon, the “great nowadays is about 107 million tons est Secretary of the Treasury since a year. Alexander Hamilton,” basked among In 1932 America produced less his millions and his old masters, ser than 100 billion kilowatt hours of ene in the belief that the storm would electric power. Today the output eventually be ridden out and nobody exceeds 450 billion. We have added another pharmacy to would be hurt much but the people Prophets of doom who foresaw a We make Friends with Flowers Herbert Hoover created the Recon “ The Quisenberry Pharmacies, that operate as one ” severe decline in business and industry « struction Finance Corporation to bail if 319 W. Washington St. STAYTON. ORE. after the war were confounded, and n out, with loans, some of the hard- M 1*2 block« on West Statton Highway continue to be confounded, by the M pressed banks, insurance companies, great changes today. People who The new pharmacy will be open until 11:00 o'clock lailroads and other enterprises. Three wailed that the last frontiers of busi after General Charles “Hell ’n* at night on week days and from 12:00 noon until 2:00 weeks Maria" Dawes resigned as head of the ness had been exploited have seer, P.M. and 6:00.until 9:00 in the evenings on all Sundays RFC. his bank in Chicago pocketed a brand-new industries, like television, and all holidays. neat »1*0 million loan from that agency. become giants. But Hoover resolutely opposed relief Businessmen’s Complaint There we will specialize in prescriptions and stock for Businessmen have complained, of the hungry and ill-clad. will be limited to medicines and sick room supplies. course, about federal legislation de I nder the Sheriff's Hammer signed to protect the public. They Your prescriptions will be on file there as well as In 1932 alone, 273,000 home owners have not always been happy about the at the other locations and will be available, for your lost their property through foreclos- Public I tility Holding Company Act, I ure. By early 1933 nearly a thousand or the anti-monopoly campaigns of convenience, these longer hours. r homes a day were going under the the Department of Justice. The new location is 130 South Liberty Street, and sheriff’s hammer. And they are not happy about taxes Hoover pondered, and conferred, and Who is? But most sensible people the phone number is 4-^336. However, if you dial the ORDER YOl'K IH IBS EOR FALL PLANTING NOW! but aside from a few ut recognize that a* long as America Court Street number. 3-9123, and that store is closed, declaimed, terly inadequate steps such as creating must maintain its defenses against the call will be relayed. the RFC and the Federal Home Loan Russian imperialism, taxes cannot ba Banks (which helped out financiers light. We are pleased to be able to offer this kind of pre Our Shop Is Open 7 A.M. to 9 P.M. but did little for the people), there While businessmen may properly scription service and to have it available these longer was scant action. Seven Days a Werk claim a lot of the credit for their owr hours. Small wonder that in November of prosperity, all but the most diehard 1932 the people voted to turn out of of Republicans must concede, wher. Funeral Sprays — Cut Flowers — Corsages office the party that had presided over they think back to the dismal, de the worst mess in the history of the featist days of the early 1930s, that Flowers For All Occasions United States, and elevate to power a a government run by Democrats lifted “THAT OPERATE AS ONE” party and a President capable of de them out of profound trouble, started SEE I S FOR cisive action to break the back of th« them on the way up, and continues to Arranging and Replanting Your Indoor Dish Cardens Great Depression. help them climb. FOR 21-HOl R SERVICE DAILY DIAL 3-9123 and New Vines for Wall Hangers i.FT ) <H R QI \l ITY JOB PRI NTING AT THF. ENTERPRISE — DON PETERSON, Publisher ____________ Entered *• second-class matter November 10. 1S44 at the poet office at Mill City. Oregon, under the Act of March 1. 1S7S. 'Moss-Backs’ Scratch The Key To November R H Special Announcement 130 S. Liberty St., Salem Fall is Bulb Planting Time lie have a good selection of Shrubs and Peonies Phone 3684 — All Hours Quisenberry Pharmacies XX.