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Editorial Comments The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE DON PETERSON. Publisher ______________ Entered as secund-class matter November 10. 1»«< at the post office at Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 1. 107». _________ _ CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for $100. 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. Pc'.itical Advertising 75c inch. NEWSPAPER NATIONAL EDITORIAL October 16. 1952 THE REPUBLICAN MESS 1921 -1933 "THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” ____ —George Putnam. 'Moss-Backs’ Scratch Mark Twain is credited with having said, “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about It I” This great gentleman might have gone a little deeper on this subject of weather. He could have said that weather is so important that people just cannot help talking about it. People don’t talk about the weather the way they’re supposed to gossip about their neighbors. Fear isn’t the reason we talk about w’eather. It isn’t communistic, socialistic, Republican, or Democrat. It does produce changes in our hides, however. Oregon’s weather is getting under the skins of .the “Moss-backs”. This long drouth has them scratching in puzzlement. Twain was poking fun at our lack of means of reaching up into the sky and plucking out rain, wind and sunshine. This wit would be amazed at the progress man has made in doing something about the weather, specifically his mechanical means for creating “good” weather in homes and places of work. The weatherman’s patient charting of storms and weather “fronts” has largely taken the surprise away from weather changes. Oregon’s great outdoors has the tang of autumn now. All who enjoy this dry, sunshiny weather these days will long remember it. Fortunately Oregon has so many streams that bathtubs and green lawns are still in vogue. Moss-backs need not get too incrusted with scale. The Key To November Forest fires and politics have kicked our favorite sub ject, flying saucers, from the front pages. Don’t let that fool you, however, they’re still nosing around. New Zealand is all lathered up about them now. Since the atomic tests by England in that area “saucers” have been sighted. This tie-in of “atomic tests” and saucers has occurred time and again. Even the Soviets are losing sleep over these “things”. Flying saucers have been called by us, “conscience saucers”. We have credited these unexplained doings as dealings with our so-called subconscious. It is possible that beings farther advanced than we are guiding us carefully towards peace. These beings may be in our midst: “saucer” sightings being merely their means of directing our natural curiosity. The motive for bringing peace on earth is obvious. Atomic power recklessly loosed upon the world reasonably could “poison” a goodly seg ment of the Universe and make it uninhabitable for life in forms as yet undiscovered by us. It gives pause for thought that our conduct is being molded intelligently by wise and good beings hoverings about us. Following this line of thought, we predict the election of the candidate for president who most intelligently will handle the problem of the atomic power of the United States and of the atom in the councils of the free nations of the world. Further, those Congressmen up for election, whose records reflect ignorance in atomic matters, will be defeated, of such are Senators Cain and Jenner. III III III III tell Special Announcement We make Friends with Flowers 319 W. Washington St. STAYTON, ORE. 130 S. Liberty St., Salem Pa blink* on Went Stayton High* ay X X X X X X X X X X X X X k K K lO t Fall is Bulb Planting Time llip have a good selection of Shrubs and Peonies ORDER YOl'R III I BS FOR FALL PLANTING NOW! KKW XXaCXSW W XaCtoCXXJCW XXlO tX THOSE WILD PROMISES OF I may confuse his “yes” and “no” pen TAX CUTS 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 that the Republicans can make drastic tell the voter, then tell him again— cuts in federal expenditures, both civ and perhaps again: Vote 318 X YES. ilian and military. Vote 331 X NO. And How The Democratic Party First General Eisenhower talked And hope on November 4 the voter I about a cut of $40 billion. This pro Cleaned Things Up posal was too much even for Senatot comes up with the proper marking Taft, who promptly challenged it on the ballot. We are confident (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 THE NEWSPAPER SWING agreed that a $20 billion cut, in two 1921 to 1933 with the Democratic Party’s achievements 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. CRASH 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 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 the United States will have to adjust discriminating 19 per cent” of the lican year of 1929, and millions of tion—from March 4 to mid-June of its budgets to the world situation, th . press which is supporting the Demo others were too young in ’29 to have 1933—American business got a series matter how attractive tax cuts inay be. cratic presidential ticket. any first-hand recollection today of of shots in the arm that turned a fear He therefore makes no wild promises The Los Angeles Daily News an the Great Crash. Those of us who ful economic retreat into the beginning 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 (with its pro-Eisenhower editor, David l did the Santa Barbara News and the ber plenty. in the country closed, Roosevelt in his Lawrence) takes some of the guff out ! three McClatchy newspapers, at Sao Under the Republicans we had had ramento, Fresno and Modesto. of the Eisenhower-Taft promises. as Presidents, successively, the unfor First Inaugural Address assured the The Louisville Courier-Journal and tunate fumbler Warren Gamaliel nation that “plenty is at our doorstep" “Taft-Eisenhower promise (note 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 $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, needed only four hours to pass the billion sound good, but may be diffi the Stevenson trail, The Atlanta “Silent Cal” Coolidge, and finally the Administration ’s Emergency Banking cult to fulfill. Cuts of that size, if Journal, largest newspaper in the “Great Engineer,” Herbert Hoover, made, will have to center in defense.” South, went for Stevenson the other who was at the throttle when Amer Act, and in a few days those banks The Atlanta Constitution had ica tumbled into the greatest panie that had been found to be in safe con The magazine then estimates that day. dition began to reopen. $3.4 billion might be cut out of the previously made the plunge. of all time. $58 billion defense and foreign aid The St. Louis Post-Dispatch which We had been riding high for a few The Road Back budget by drastic action. It then has won more Pulitzer prizes than any years. Especially those who played Roosevelt proposed, one after an points out that drastic cuts in the $21 other American newspaper made up 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, unlikely in light of Eisenhower’s ac weeks ago. scrape up a little money, buy stocks the Civilian Conservation Corps, the ceptance of the social security and And in Oregon the nominally Repub on margin, and watch them climb. Public Works Administration, the Se farm aid programs and fixed costs lican but independent Medford Mail Anybody who mentioned that the curities and Exchange Commission, such as veterans’ aid and interest on Tribune swung into the Stevensson stocks weren’t worth anything resem and the Tennessee Valley Authority. national debt. column October 5 after being “do 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 here to stay, if defense is kept up,” I against Senator Taft in pre-convention short. Certainly Coolidge showed no the United States off the gold stand the U. S. News concludes. worry. Professor Irving Fisher of ard, in a move to increase foreign and convention days. 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 A Resounding Crash $20 billion cuts Eisenhower and Tuft Administration, the famous “Blue want Taft reaction and isolationism, Just how wrong a professor can be are holding out. who don't believe in the McCarthy- was demonstrated on the floor of the Eagle” organization through which the One can only conclude that prom Jenner doctrine of the ‘big lie’, who late Gen. Hugh Johnson exhorted and ises of tremendous cuts in federal ex don’t want a change just for the sake New York Stock Exchange in October cajoled the stagnating business com penses are for political purposes only. ’ of change regardless of the confusion and November of 1929, when the munity of America into some sem “plateau” slid into an abyss with a —From Oregon Journal. and moral retrogression such a change resounding crash that was to reverb blance of the vigor and enterprise that business had almost forgotten were it# would involve—we believe the people erate for years in the farthest reaches traditional hallmarks. WHEN TO VOTE YES' AND who feel this way should not vote for of the world. WHEN ‘NO’ All these things were done in a Eisenhower and Nixon, but for Steven The bigwigs of Wall Street and of hundred days. An attorney was once asked the son and Sparkman. secret of his success with juries. The Great Depression was not, na “Above all we can see no reason Republican Washington did all they “Well,” he replied, “1 tell the jurors why there should be talk about ‘de could think of to check the disaster. turally, wiped out between March and 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 I tell them. Then I tell them yhat deserted Eisenhower, but Eisenhower many millions to support the market. ness, and people generally, got new I’ve told them. Then they come in deserted the Mail Tribune and all Hoover announced In October that “the help and new hope. And as the year» with a verdict for my client.” other independent and liberal voters fundamental business of the country’ passed, the tide of improvement be was “on a sound and prosperous ba came a tidal wave. There was, to be But it is a tougher problem for of his party.” 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 193? truck bills on the November 4 ballot such distinguished company as the had "turned the corner.” And that and early ’38. But thereafter recov 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” Post-Dispatch and the other great dent can be. the American people, to levels of well is called for. being that had hardly been dreamed of. newspapers named above. We be What Happened To Business One measure calls for a “yes” mark; I lieve their swing to Stevenson is sym Here is what happened to business Black Ink of Prosperity 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 few that follow, written in the rich Factory output was cut in half. to wreck the state highway system and Eisenhower campaign.—From Oregon The total value of finished goods black ink of prosperity, have a peculiar pay the share of taxes which should Journal. and services produced by American eloquence: be paid by the long-haul truck lines. By the end of 1951 the index of business fell 46 per cent from $91 It’s that serious! PILES factory production was four times billion in 1929 to $51 billion in 1932. In support of house bill 465, passed as high as in 1932—and more than (Hemorrhoids) Profits disappeared and corpora by the legislature but held up by the tions went into the red by $3.4 bil double the previous peak reached in Fistula, Fissure, Itching, Prolapse, truckers’ referendum, the voter should 1929. lion in 1932. VOte "yes.” The ballot number it and other Rectal disorders corrected. The value of the goods and serv Securities fell to one-fifth their 318 X YES. *MiId Treatment ices produced by business, which was 1929 values. To defeat the so-called “equitable* $51 billion in 1932 (the equivalent Call for examination or write tax measure which would handcuff the While business floundered, human of $196 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 $299 Don’t become incurable, by delay. trucks fairly and “equitably,” the vot By 1933 there billion—nearly three times as great was sold for taxes, er must vote a resounding "no”. The R. REYNOLDS, N.I). were 15 million unemployed, Bread in physical quantity as 29 years ago. pencil must hit the line, 331 X NO. 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 Fairgrounds 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 ingot steel. The rats ing ceased. Andy Mellon, the “great nowadays is about 197 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 109 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 peonle. Prophets of doom who foresaw a Herbert Hoover created the Recon “The Quisenberry Pharmacies, that operate as one” struction Finance Corporation to bail severe decline in business and industry out, with loans, some of the hard- after the war were confounded, and pressed banks, insurance companies, continue to be confounded, by the 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 weeks after General Charles “ Hell *n* at night on week days and from 12:00 noon until 2:00 Maria” Dawes resigned a« head of the ness had been exploited have seen P.M. and 6:00.untiI 9:00 in the evenings on all Sundays RFC. his bank in Chicago pocketed a brand-r.ew industries, like television, and all holidays. neat $99 million loan from that agency. become giants. But Hoover resolutely opposed relief Businessmen's Complaint There we will specialize in prescriptions and stock for the hungry and ill-clad. Businessmen have complained, of 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, 273,090 home owners have not always been happy about the at the other locations and will be available, for your lost their property through foreclos- Publi, I tility Holding Company Act, ure. By early 1933 nearly a thousand or the anti-monopoly campaigns of convenience, these longer hours. 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? the phone number is 4-3336. However, if you dial the But most sensible people but aside from a few ut recognize that as long as America Court Street number, 3-9123, and that store is closed, declaimed, terly inadequate steps such as creating must maintain its defenses agains* 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 but little for the people), there W hile businessmen may properly scription service and to have it available these longer was did scant action. claim a lot of the credit for their own 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, when office the party that had presided ovet they think back to the dismal, de the worst mess in the history of the featist days of the early 1930s, that 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 cisive action to break the back of th« them on the way up, and continues to Great Depression. help them climb. FOR 21-HOUR SERVICE DAILY DIAL 3-9123 J PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Phone 3684 — All Hours Our Shop Is Open 7 A.M. to 9 P.M. Seven Daye a Week Funeral Sprays — Cut Flowers — Flowers For All Occasions 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Corsages SEE US FOR Arranging and Replanting Your Indoor Dish Cardens and New Vines for Wall Hangers M Quisenberry Pharmacies .FF 1 O1 R QU \I ity job PRINTING \T Till ENTERPRin *-