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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1952)
Editorial Comments The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY. OREGON PETERSON. Publloher CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for SUM). The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in sertion. Errors in adverti-ing should be reported immediately. Display Advertising 15c column inch. Pc'.itical Advertising 75c inch. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION •“IHE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIFMIS.” —George I’ut am. We Are Thankful The grand holiday that conies Thursday (today) is a fine one. Thanksgiving is a day peculiar for the people of our nation. Those few hardy travelers from the Old World who first began Thanksgiving had reason for such a day. Theirs had been a hard lot. Their own strength and the co-operation of the Indians helped them carve a living from the resources of this great continent. Being deeply religious by nature, they turned easily to God and eave thanks for being permitted a good life in the New World. There are those who would say that we today are an ungrateful lot, because we do not outwardly signal our humble thanks to God for the good things we enjoy. Such a feeling has no sound basis. We of the United States have stretched a helping hand to peoples of the Old World. These people we do not know and have never seen, Our government has seen to it that the blessings of freedom and liberty can be enjoyed by Man kind all over the world. Because of the greatness of the United States much is expected of it. Each of us in his or her own wav feel deeply thankful that our way of life is permitted. Those who suffer cold and hunger in lands under the heel of the very selfish and cunning think of our Nation in terms of awe. Their thoughts now would be much the same as our forefathers’ were they here today. 'I he courage and hope that our forefathers’ had we have. Our courage and hope is up against a different foe than that of our forefathers, however. They faced the prospect of wresting a living from the earth of North America. We must see that the privilege of doing this continues in this nation and all over the world. We are thankful that we can have a part in seeing that this is so. Somehow we feel that the rowdyness and rashness of our people, their easy manner with each other and their toleration of their neighbors is good tidings that the good in our Nation will survive the present dark world. We are thankful that this Nation still stands <niard over those precious rights outlined by our forefathers. We are thankful that this day we enjoyed the good things of life. We are thankful that this day we can look forward to a better life. The high road of opportunity and hope lies invitingly ahead. We can plan and know that our plans will fail short only because of our own shortcomings. Life means more than just a fate that must be endured. Life in these United States does yet have a gusty zest-and a lively freedom. By enjoying life on Thanksgiving we fit ourselves naturally into the situation that is true appreciation, A gift is given that it may be enjoyed by the receiver, We are the receivers of the gift of liberty and freedom, By enjoying it well, we warm the memory of those who made possible our Thanksgiving Day. THE H-BOMB: MENACE AND HOPE The hydrogen bomb is here, At least it is out of the laboratory and into the stage of field tests, Some deplorable security leaks gave ad vance hints of the fact. And the Atomic Energy Commission, its hand forced, made an announcement which, says Dr. Harold C. Urey, discoverer of heavy water, “sounds like official language for a successful H-bomb,” Whatever its dimensions at this moment, the fact itself is gigantic. What does it mean? It means, of course, coupled with the intercontinental range and jet speeds of modern planes, that no hearthside in the world now lies bi yond destructive reach of an all-out war. It means that a world, which has gone further than ever before toward conserving human life and making it less grim and burdensome, has also gone further toward providing tools for its mass destruction. It means that a world which has developed ihe mechanism- for making the antipodes neighbors has lagged sadly in the knowledge and the will to make the antipodes friends. We are no worse than our ancestors. Perhaps the chief reason the West was not in conflict with the East in centureis past was that neither knew the other—and couldn’t get at each other had they known, But we do know tooay. We can get at each other. And for those very reasons we not only should be better than our ancestors, we have got to be better rot merely that the world a3 we know it shall survive, but that it shall (‘eserve to survive and be fit to live in. The II-bomb can do no more and no less than spur our efforts towaid peace. And, just as before, those en deavors must drive simultaneously along two levels. On the level of November 27, 1952 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE physical strength there is the struggle to achieve, at best, free world superi- ortiy; at least, a balance which, so often in history, has discouiaged a calamitous test of power. On this level, American possession of the H-bomb is heartening. It tips tiie balance a little toward the free— for at time. It may hold the balance ro worse than even for a longer time. But there must be no illusions. As Admiral Struble warned a few days ago: "No weapon can peimanently re main an inestrument to our advantage alone.” And there must be no strut ting bellicosity. All the arguments which pronounce “preventive war” with the A-bomb a reckless, immoral risk apply equally to the H-bomb. Whatever transient stability the H- bomb may buy on the level of physical force, it will be wasted unless nation- bring their wills and their skills to live together in a world community up to and ahead of their ability to destroy each other in a world arena. The ultimate goal may be distant. But the next steps are neither too high nor too far from home. It may be some time before the free peoples can bring themselves and those within the Iron Curtain to mu tual understanding and co-operation. But peoples of like ideas and institu tions—to be precise, the people of the United States, the British Com monwealth, and Western Europe can here and now do less scrutinizing of their differences and more building upon their likenesses. To bring it even closer to home— whatever Americans may still be i more annoyed with their allies than con- cerned with how to strengthen and work with them might ponder • the election returns. Governor Stevenson conducted an internationalist cam paign. So did General Eisenhower, And pollster Elmo Roper says the Eisenhower landslide shows the Amer- ican electorate believes in "the tools of internationalism.” So, along with the menace of the (Continued from Page 11______ H-bomb there is also hope. — From oughly with your friends and neigh- Christian Science Monitor. bors, then take it with you to the polls I NDERPAID SOVIET WORKERS next Tuesday at the City Hall on That communism has nothing to Cedar street between 2nd and 3rd offer the rank and file of workers in avenues S.W. where you can render the United States is evidenced by Y’OUR decision on these questions results in Soviet Russia. Unskilled on an official ballot. « • * workers there are greatly underpaid, Some boys have been causing a lot the Department of Labor points out of trouble to the contractors building in its Labor Information Bulletin. Most Soviet laborers are on a piece the sidewalk up the hill on First work basis, the economists explain, avenue south during the past week and must meet a certain quota which by jumping on the fresh concrete be is constantly subject to increases. The fore it has had a chance to “set”. low pay forces them to work faster The men doing the work stand to loose and longer. Thus the Soviet system considerable money and time if they engenders a gigantic work speed-up aie required to replace damaged sec tions of this sidewalk. They have program. Such a situation certainly makes already lost much valuable time by no appeal to American labor. In fact, the careless acts of children who ap- Communism has never aroused any 1 parently don’t realize they are caus mass enthusiasm in the United States. ing damage to fresh concrete. Let’s It has had plenty of years to build up hope they will be a little more con- a giass-roots workers sympathy on siderate of their neighbors who labor the basis of what it has claimed to to build improvements for our city. have accomplished for Soviet work ers, but this has ever failed to de velop. Rather the general backward ness of labor in Russia has been rec ognized as a potential threat to the high living standards of American workers. — From Christian Science Monitor. Canyon Avenue- »’ti riirHH ini mi iiiiw i an :ni im .111111:11 imiiw >n* min iimiii tin iiii an iiii . iii uwi iiii u MOVED \RK IIAHHI LSCIxSLS REGIS1ERE!) OPTOMETRIST HOME OFFICE: 313 W. FIRST, ALBANY I w IS NEEDED Protect Jobs by Saving Electricity The long dry foil has resulted in danger ously low water in the rivers which gen erate our hydroelectric power. As a result the Defense Electric Power Administra- tion has ordered temporary cutbacks in the amount of power used by major elec tric users such as factories and mills. This means that production is being cur GET 5 01 R QUALITY JOB PRINTING AT THE ENTERPRISE — Administrator’s Auction The undersigned administrator will sell at auction the personal effects of JOHN (The Greek) STAMOS Monday, Dec. I, 1952 at 10:3(1 a.in. sharp. Lunch at noon. 2 miles West of Mill City, or 5 miles East of Mehama on the Marion county side of the North Santiam river. 12 head of high grade Herfords consisting of 22 cows, ten 2-year old heifers, seven 1-year old heifers. I steer 1-year old. one 2-year regis tered bull. 1 saddle horse. This is a very good high grade herd. You will find them in good condition and lad ter than the average. \lso, ‘51 Ford pickup. ’38 International 20-tract tractor. John Deere manure spreader on rubber. John Deere 3-bottom disk plow. John Deere 2-bottom Hi-inch plow . 100-gallon Meyers field sprayer. 2-section spring tooth harrow. Oliver 8-ft. disk, 10-ft. has rake ti-ft. Moline disk drill. 5-ft. mower. 8-ft. corrugated roller. Wood saw. 2-section steel harrow. 300-gallon gas tank. (¡rain, I l-ton bailed hay Koler light plant. New windows, doors, roofing, lumber, etc. \ll furniture, tool* and 1001 other items. THIS IS ONE OF Till BIG SALES OF HIE > E \R. LOTS OF THE EQUIPMENT IS NEARIA NEW. Remember! BEN I . SUDTF.I.L. Vuclionerr 10:30 Sharp! COME! D. B. HILL Mill t ils State Bank, \dministrater tailed and workers' wages reduced ... or even cut off altogether. You Can Help! Every kilowatt-hour of electricity you save releases more for industry. More men will continue to draw their full pay checks. So check your home now for way» to sove clectrity every hour of every day. To keep jobs going . . , make every kilowatt count! Be Thrifty With Electricity! Save electricity everywhere you can. Eliminate waste of electric power every- where. Snap oft the switch on that lamp or appliance when you finish using it. Remember . . . MAKE EVERY KILOWATT COUNT! Mountain States Power Co In Cooperation With Northwest Utilities Conference Committee and the Defense Electric Power Administration