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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1952)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Editorial Comments 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE December 25, 1952 DON PETERSON. Publisher WAYNE MORSE, INDEPENDENT tive support imposed upon his two His land Sen. Wayne Morse has made the immediate predecessors. right decision in announcing that he slide election, on the contrary, showed will not take part in either the Re that official labor cannot deliver the CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for $1.00. The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in publican or Democratic caucuses in vote of the rank and file. There is sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display the Senate, Having bolted the Re- nothing in his record, utterances, or Advertising 45c column inch. Pclitical Advertising 75c inch. publican party to support Governor appointments thus far that suggests ■ \ Stevenson for President, the Oregon an “anti-labor” point of view, Ö'**' NEWSPAPER NATIONAL EDITORIAL liberal now intends to adopt the status seems a middle-roader on this as \ ’■2/ IA sîb c T at K)N PUBLISHERS once held by the late Sen. George W. other issues. fa *5~¿| I » J L Plenty of knotty problems are Norris of Nebraska. -ASSOCIATION __i i'V’w?- ri .'».r This means, first of all, that he will J ing up for him, particularly on not take part in either party’s de railroads and in the coal fields ‘“THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” cisions on organizing the Senate when matter how the miners’ wage dispute —George Putnam. it meets in January. Unless by some comes out). But .Mr. Eisenhower can r remote chance a Michigan i ecount -tart out, as a President should, suf were to change the election result in ficiently independent of both labor that state, the division therefore will and industry to take a national rather Maybe we’re just “tuckered out”, but it does seem be 48 Republicans to 47 Democrats, i than a partisan stand. •that Christmas and New Years gets here and leaves with wtih a vice presidential vote to spare On Capital Hill there will likely be in case of a tie. general awareness that although the a rush. When a child, Christmas’s arrival took ages. for As the we Republicans have said before, the Repub balance of power has shifted a little New Years Day wasn’t noticed. Toys and that “Christ licans are entitled to organize the to the right, labor has not suddenly mas gift” filled each new day with joy. Now the New Senate and to control its committees, "gone Republican” nor the country Year is a change in numbers on the calendar and a sure even though their party majority is conservative. This Congress threat- i ens little of the pent-up vindictive- so precarious. sign of another birthday. Personally, Senator .Morse has I ness which broke out in the 80th. It is said that the tender years of life are the ones chosen an interesting future for him But labor can expect pressure against full of great discovery. The teens and twenties bring self. He will not be eligible for fed the union shop and industry-wide bar “worldly knowledge”. Thereafter we humans endure eral patronage; but Senator Norris gaining. The unions, on their part, know life with the inner-hope that our faith in it will somehow used to argue that the net effect af they are now on their own, and there this was to relieve him from a profit get a boost. less vexation. He will not get party is reason to believe that many of So great is this hope for signs of the good in us that help or funds if he seeks re-election their more thoughtful leaders see this tiny bits of it keep us going in the trudge through adult four years hence; on the other hand , as a sealthy change. This recogni tion. undoubtedly, is spurring CIO life. Christmas gives each of us a made-to-order chance as an independent in such a narrowly j leadership to agree on divided Senate he may wield mote in- for showing we aren't really "that way” after all. The fluence than he would as a party a successor in to its Mr. efforts Murray without a joyous beauty of our children’s part in the great Christ member. divisive convention fight. Ultimately mas play wipes away worldly cares. Those who would There ought to be a place for the it may work for labor unity. The spoil Christmas haven't a single care for the well-being independent in American political life. AFL quietly chose George H. Meany- One always remember-, of course, that who was Mr. Green's right-hand man, of Man. Senator Norris was finally defeated for its top office, which is a little So much fun has been poked at New Year’s Resolu by a straight Republican. But it has more of a chairmanship than a presi tions that their use is on the wane. It is rather “corny” not been proved that his cutting him dency. Chances of the stormy John —this making and breaking of resolutions. What isn’t self adrift from party ties was the L. Lewis moving into any power vac corny is the renewed faith we get from the spirit of basic cause of his defeat; indeed he uum anywhere seem much more re enjoyed his greatest influence and mote than a few years ago. ’Christmas. Just when we’re about to throw in the towel vote-getting The new administration, therefore, power during the years on the good fight, along comes Christmas and the story of independence, Senator Morse now will likely face a situation with the of the birth of Christ, the hope of the world. Again we sets simself on the same path and AFL, the railway brotherhoods, and are reminded that here is our answer. The New Year his career will be watched with in the miners much as they have been. terest. — From St, Louis Post-Dis- The CIO may be shaken but not becomes a new chance for betterment. deeply split, and under the leader Courage is needed by each of us for solving the tough Hatch. ship either of UAW's dynamic but not problems that plop into our daily lives. Christmas builds radical Walter Reuther, or of some NEW ERA FOR LABOR a reserve of that courage. Those who miss out on this Union labor represents one of the other president chosen chiefly to hold gift of Christmas, because of their uncertain plunge largest and most powerful of the self- the status quo until the organization digest its new alignment of forces. through life, pass up a richer and fuller life. Christmas conscious and organized economic can Added all together, here is a pros groups that make up the American puts a twinkle in the eye and charges up that sense of pect which poses problems, to be sure, The coincidence of the pass humor. We long for the day when the spirit of Christmas scene. but which should not be unduly alarm ing of its two top leaders just as 20 reaches ’round the world. Perhaps this wish is kin to years of labor-obligated Democratic ing either to labor or to the man about the eager desire we held as children for the magic of administrations draw to a close is j to move into the White House.—From Christian Science Monitor, for Nov. Christmas. Peace and joy al1 over the world will be the more than dramatic. It could mark 29, 1952. the beginning of a new era. What greatest Christmas gift of all. roes American labor face in the in coming administration? And what does that administration face in or ganized labor wtih Philip Murray and William Green gone? At this moment the new Secretary of I .also has not yet been named. But, barring some radically unortho dox choice for this office, the pros pective attitude at both ends of I’enn- sylvanai Avenue seems reasonably plain. Mr. Eisenhower can fee] no such obligation to union labor as its offer- Entered as eerond-claee matter November 10. 1944 st the poet office at Mill City, Oregon, uniter the Act of March 3. 1H79 DR. MARK MOVED REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST II \S MOVED his Mill City office to Stayton in the Post Office Bldg., 2nd Floor, in the Dr. Victor J. Myers offices. Office Hours: Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. HOME OFFK E: 313 W. FIRST. 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