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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1953)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Januar; 22. 1953 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Editorial Comments ate never dies—and its old rules stay THIS IS THE TRl'TH FILIBUSTER TANGLE 1 in force. DON PETERSON, Publisher You have often heard folks say, j One of these days the filibuster I This newspaper questions the Entered aa Kevond-claaa matter November 10, IS44 at the post office at “It is better to smoke here than here- ; issue should be decided on its own. dom of closing debate by simple •Mill City. Or«Kon, under the Act of March 3, 18Tt. . after.” This has long been regarded It is unlikely that the 21 senators jority vote. But we also believe the CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for il.00. as a joke, but it is no laughing mat who voted for the Anderson motion extreme abuses of the filibuster para The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in ter. It is entirely possible to do both to open the way for a tule change lyze effective representative govern sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display — or at least smoking here often curbing filibusters represent the ment. Senate rules should be revised , Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. whole strength that can be marshaled to curb these abuses. hastens the hereafter. YOUR NATIONAL EDlIORlAt It is surprising the number of against devices for preventing a vote General Eisenhower spoke in favor ; N E WS PA PI R in the Senate. acquaintances whom we have heard , of such a change during the campaign. PUBLISHERS The filibuster issue was already Senator Taft and others among the recently refuse a cigar or cigarette, AUTHORIZED ASSOCIATION saying "My doctor said either stop confused with—indeed, overshadowed 70 senators who defeated the Ander- j smoking or you’ll be dead in less than by — the civil rights-states' rights son motion have disavowed any pur- ! DEALER issue. The filibuster has been used pose to perpetuate the present rule. | two years.” "THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FR’FMJS.” Perhaps you think we are just try almost exclusively in recent years by Indeed, there is an implied promise —George Pui am. FOR ing to scare you—but what we are Southerners as a lasf desperate de to restore the earlier and somewhat fense of their local customs and way tighter rule. going to tell you is the truth regard Its opponents have been Insofar as possible the issue should ing smoking and your chance of get of life. ting cancer, not to mentiorf other dis chiefly Northerners who sought to be separated from disputes over civil Mill City’s Franklin I). Roosevelt Birthday Ball, Sat eases. Here is a portion of the latest end segregation by federal law. rights and the life of the Senate. urday, January 31, plays a big role in the polio fund cam ’ I report just published by the Ameri- The vote on Wednesday was further Republican leaders should in any case by the debate over wheth now take responsibility for obtaining paign for this year. Aside from the worthy nature of ’ can Medical association, headed by complicated er the Senate is a continuing body. a better rule. Only so can they get Dr. Alton Ochsner, president of the such an event is the punch it has for one’s memory. Supporters of the filibuster move their party out of the position of ap American Cancer Society. Phone 1652 Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken by polio. As a “During the years from 1920 to contended that since the 82d Congress pearing to uphold the filibuster in 24-HOUR SERVICE result, a healthy body was crippled to the point where a ; 1948, deaths from lung cancer in the had died, the Senate, as a part of it, which it was placed by Wednesday’s i also ended, But the fact that vote.—From Christian Science Mon-1 wheel chair and powerful arms were his only way of United States increased more than 10 had of its members continued I moving. Polio was a severe burden for this man of great . times, from 1.1 to 11.3 per 100,000 two-thirds in office, plus long custom, supported of population. From 1938 to 1948 — action and thought. just 10 years instead 28 years— the majority contention that the Sen- Roosevelt was reduced to an invalid by polio when deaths from lung cancer increased 144 he was yet in the prime of life. It is said that the terrible percent. Right now, cancer of the pain and crippling of polio resulted in changing a very mouth and respiratory tract is killing SAIÆ.M 19,000 men and 5,000 women every rich young man, with few cares, into a great humanita year 1*1 N. (kunmerclal St. our United States.” rian. The truth of this we may never know. What we The in United Nations World Health Has Everything for Your do know is that Roosevelt experienced the scourge of polio Organization reports that after the and turned his great powers to ways and means of curing age of 45 the danger of getting cancer from smoking increases directly in (Heard over KPOJ, Portland, at 10:15 anti preventing it in others. p.m., Monday through Friday) the ratio of the number of cigarettes Probing cameras were seldom focused upon Roose smoked. Furniture and Bookkeeping Supplies It can be 50 times as great velt in such a way that his -shrunken legs would show. among those who smoke 25 cigarettes Prime Minister Winston Churchill Neither were pictures or comment made of his being a day as those who don’t smoke at declared the danger of war was eas lifted about and pushed in a wheelchair from one place all. The American Cancer Society ing and the reaction sent stocks and futures downhill. The to another during his busy life. One of the greatest has published a report which states commodity “the more a person smokes, the speculators who figured to clean up moments in President Roosevelt’s life was the time when greater the danger of getting lung in case of war were caught off base. special leg braces allowed him a standing position aboard or mouth cancer.” The Wall Street Journal reports that ship during a mid-ocean meeting with Prime Minister We publish this report of the cancer most futures prices hit thair lowest Churchill. Even the leg braces did not permit the taking society because the 24,000 deaths from levels in two years, and the stock market dropped from 1 to 2 points for of a single faltering step, he held firmly to a ship railing cancer each year are only the ones two III days in a row. Steel, automo reported as such. There are thous- III with one hand while he shook hands with Churchill with ands of deaths from cancer not so biles and other items regarded as III the other. Roosevelt applied his great personality to the Listed. vital to warfare were all on the down III grade. The speculators run for cover effort against polio without showing any of the bitter The report of the American Can t III Society has been sent to all of the when it appears peace is likely to ness that must have plagued his soul. break out. leading daily and weekly papers in Roosevelt permitted the use of his popularity in the the • • • United States. We believe that cause against polio, and a grateful nation responded in we are the only paper in Oregon who THE TELEPHONE and the medi- we make Friends with Flowers ways wondrous indeed. The dime that Roosevelt asked has given our readers this report; urn . . . After all these years, the top 319 W. Washington St. STAYTON, ORE be donated, now bears his famous profile. Roosevelt’s why others have not told the truth hero of World War I will get a tele- 1 I phone, Sgt. Alvin York has signed I ’ i blocks on West Stay ton Highway about the danger of getting cancer birthday now serves as an occasion for raising more from smoking when they would be i an application for a telephone with money for the polio fight. doing their readers a real service, we the Twin Lakes Co-op of Gainesboro, Devoted attention to this campaign against polio is cannot understand. Tenn. York, who is a member of a bearing fruit in ways too numerous for listing here. Mill Along with the Crusade for Free rural electric co-op at Decatur, Tenn., City citizens have responded generously in past years to dom, we favor a Crusade for Freedom says the new telephone system is the recommends first step necessary in making the this worthy cause and, without doubt, will do so again this from the danger of getting cancer. conveniences of city life available to We have heard many men and women year. The tragedy of polio is easily imagined as happen say, The rural tele “Oh, I can stop smoking anytime the rural citizens. ing to our loved ones. It does, each year. The fight I want to, and I know I will have to phone co-operatives were formed by must be carried on at an ever-increasing pace. Polio before long.” Why not exert your i the farmers with government aid, and is no respecter of persons as President Franklin Delano will power now? Why not give up i like rural electrification, they have smoking before it is too late? Some ' brought modern conveniences to Roosevelt well knew. • folks do not consult a doctor in time,. countless rural homes. Here are some of the outstanding varieties mentioned in the • * * “A do not get told to stop smoking or January Sunset: they will die—they just die! LOVE THOSE LOOPHOLES: . . . ¥ Chrysler Imperial . . . featured on Sunset's January cover and a 1953 One further warning to parents, i Sen, Walter F. George declared that All America selection Watch your boys and girls from the | Americans will accept no excuse if * Ma Perkins . . . also 1953 All America selection SERVICE STATION & TRAILER COURT age of 10 on up if you do not wish j the Eisenhower administration fails ¥ Charlotte Armstrong ¥ Peace ¥ Helen Traubel them to smoke. They can now buy to balance the budget so that tax re ¥ Sutter's Gold ¥ Fred Edmunds packages of cigarettes from vending ductions already planned can go into ¥ First Love ¥ Capistrano ¥ Eclipse machines in restaurants, groceries and effect. Sen. George is a member of We have these and many other quality roses, ready for planting NOW in drug stores. True, it is unlawful the senate finance committee, where Gasoline to sell cigarettes to a minor but these George, Taft, Millikin and Byrd have automatic vending machines sell them repeatedly shaped the nation’s tax ORDER YOl R BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING NOW! to anyone tall enough to reach up and loopholes to benefit the big incomes at put the money in the slot. the expense of the rest of the tax We will appreciate hearing from payers. The budget balancing to TIRES — TUBES — BATTERIES our readers upon this subject—and we which the senator refers might be ac-1 hope that this truth does not go un complished with a more equitable dis Our Shop Is Open 7 A.M. to 9 P.M. AND AUTO SUPPLIES heeded, for it is the truth. — From tribution of taxes — which his own Seven Days a Week Greater Oregon. committee could arrange. «¡a Kxxx« MILL CITY. 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