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give form er as well as present address.
Then the real fireworks began.
Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter.
The curtain was drawn aside, so
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to speak, and the real form and
nature of the opposition and its
plans were revealed.
For some reason, the president
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SOLDIERS WILL GET THE BALLOT
and his organization are waging
an all-out drive to blix’k the pass-
There has been a lot of tliseussion about the so-called sol-
dier vote bill before Congress, the question being whether the
Kederal Government or the States should take charge of the
program and arrange all the details.
The dispute has been enlivened by news from the battle-
fronts, all to the efteet that men in the service expect to east
their ballots 111 the next Presidential election. Really. it doesn t
make much difference whether the Federal Government or the
States carry out the details. But. there seem to he distinct limita-
tions on the amount of mailing matter that can be supplied to
the men in the field and on the ships.
Apparently the responsibility re sts upon Congress, and ¡is
the air cleats of arguments and controversy it begins to look
as though the practical way is for the government to conduct
the election. If the status can Help well and good
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The obligation rests upon the home trout to supply the
battle fronts with ballots as well as bullets. Methods and means
to do it will be worked out. That seems to be a settled fact.
age of the state voting bill and
force the passage of the fed-
eru* ballot plan. Our committee
has been smeared and slandered.
Evi\r> «"<* ,n the Ux’k hus ***."
The ru,es w,mminet, of the hoUM,
has
„„jer,,,, t0 slui| the bill
antj prevent its consideration on
the floor. There’ has been some
hot debate on the floor about this
delay these last few day«. The
hope apparently is that enough
hcat has been put on the senate
t0. nnke
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RATS
Kats, moles and gophers are getting bad again. Damages
done by rodents in this section at the present time is probably
the worst in years. Many merchants and farm ers complain that
rats and gophers won’t'b e tempted bv poison and are hard to
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trap. Gophers and moles have literally perforated the land
around many farms.
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The present campaign to exterminate rats in some loean-
ties, particularly Eugene w ill he watched with interest. If sue-
eessful we ought to borrow their remedy. Perhaps some civic
organization will want to get behind a move of this sort. We
have enough organizations to do the job.
action and pass the federal ballot
plan and they wanted that done
, he house had a chan<?e
to vote on the original senate bill.
My guess is the vote in the house
w ill be close.
The last half of this week has
been devoted to the consideration
of the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation agreement and au-
thorization for appropriations up
t° one billion three hundred fifty
millions for that undertaking. The
plan is called UNRRA tp io -
nounced unrah).
The congress was not invited to
take part in making the agree
ment. It was worked out in seve
ral state department and execu
tive conferences and signed.' Now
the congress is asked to approve
THE SERVICEMEN CAN
it and provide the money. This
The servicemen can prevent an agressor from invading our .method of handling the proble m is
shores and can preserve democracy in so far as the danger resented by
great many
many mem-
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by a
a great
exists from Tojo and Hiller, hut to prevent inflation and turn-
ing too fa r to the right or left in our social ideals— th a t’s our
battle too. There isn’t any use o f scrapping nazism or fascism
on the battlefield, if we permit these ideas to win on the home
front.
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RUNNIN’ RUFUS
According to the Medford Mail. Senator Rufus Holman is
a political phenomenon and can ’t be counted out yet. The Ore
gon voter is inclined to agree with this view that although you
can ’t find any Holman voters before the election, old Ruf
emerges about two lengths ahead when the votes are counted.
It was this way in 1932, 193(! ami 1940 and the infere nce is that
it might be this way in 1944.
FRANK'S GOT IT
Frank S in atra’s got something Hitler never had. Frank
can sing and the gals swoon and cheer. At his height Hitler
could harangue for hours and get cheers, but nobody ever
fainted trying to get to him. The moral of course is that if you
aspire to be a dictator, especially with tbe women, take singing
lessons.
Washington Letter
(By H arris Ellsworth)
Member of Congress from Oregon
Washington, D. C.—The ques
tion of how best to provide a vote
fo r those in the armed forces is
the hot issue in Congress as this
is w ritten. I mentioned this prob
lem in a weekly le tte r back in
November when the Lucas-Green
Federal ballot b ill firs t appeared.
A fte r six days of debate, the
senate rejected the Lucas bill.
Press and radio commentators
were generally unfair in their re
port of the senate action claiming
Republicans had united w i t h
southern democrats to defeat the
bill. As a m etter of fact the par
ties divided sharply. O f senate re
publicans present when the roll
was called on the bill, 12 voted
for it and 18 voted against it. The
democrats w'ere divided about
even.
The substitute bill passed by the
senate was hastily drawn. I t had.
several outright errors in it and
was both incomplete and inade-
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Alocohol
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Timber Cruiser Is
Given Stiff Fine
B. J. Howser, tim ber cruiser,
form erly employed by the Doug
las county court, charged w ith
“ acceptance by a county employ
ee of consideration in connection
w ith the sale of county owned
lands," was sentenced in circuit
court at Roseburg Monday to one
year in the county ja il and a fine
of $1,000.
Howser pleaded guilty when a r
raigned before Judge Carl E.
W imberly and offered no state
ment.
Howser was accused, accord
ing to the statement of D istrict
Attorney J. V. Long, of repre
senting to the county court that
a tract of land near Drain did
not contain merchantable timber
of a value of more than $500.00.
Basing its action upon the report,
the court sold the land fo r the
offered price of $500 and learned
later that sale had been negotiated
to a Drain logging concern fo r
more than $9,000.00.
The county has since recovered
title and has taken over the sale
contract, Howser paying to the
county the amourtts, exceeding
$2,000, already paid on the con
tract.
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The national housing agency has
made available ten p riority units
for conversion of bouses and build
ings at Cottage Grove into addi
tional accommoda lions for in-m i
grant war workers and their fam
ilies. Eolger Johnson, state direc
tor. Federal Housing A dm inlsttu
ition. emphasised today.
In making this statement Mr.
Johnson (kiintcd out that the units
to In* provided through the con
version program of the national
housing agency are not included
in the quota of dwellings to tic
provided by new construction,
cither privately or pubhel.v f i
nanced. and owners of suitable
properties, as well as lending in
stitutions, buildeis and material
dealers, are’ being urged to take
part in this program.
"The need for immediate fam ily
accommodations ror workers iq
war plants cannot be over-empha
sized,” the FHA director pointed
out. "The easiest and quickest
way to provide these accommoda
tions is through the use of exist
ing structure«.'*
Special financing arrangements
are available under tbe federal
housing administration's title I
loan insurance program. Loans f i
nancing conversion proqects pro
ducing added living accommoda
tions for war worker« and their
families in critical housing areas
may be secured under the T itle I
program in amounts up to $5.(MM).
to be repaid in equal monthly in
stallments over a period up to
seven years.
“There are many properties in
Oregon that are perfectly suited
to the conversion program," Mr.
Johnson said. "In many instances
w ith a comparatively s in a 11
amount of repair und remodeling
work they cun be transfoi med
into apartments providing housing
accommodations for essential war
workers and their families. The
im portant
thing to remember
about the conversion program is
that these badly needed dwelling
units can be provided quickly, and
vviili tbe use of a minimum
amount of critical materials."
As tbe result ot new ,iolicles de
veloped by the W a r Production
Board and the N ational Housing
Agency, iq ip lie .itions to r p rio ritie s
assistance in obtaining m aterials
fo r p rivately financed w a r hous
ing remodeling have lie n t brought
w ith in the same procedures con
tro llin g new private construction
fo r w a r workers
Those owning pro|M>rtiett s u it
able fo r conversion, the director
said, should address u le tte r to the
Federal Housing A d m in istra tio n,
P la tt Building, P ortland 5. O re
gon. fo r particula rs as to how
conversion may he uchicved th ru
the p rio rity system w ith the aid
of insured loans.
Miss D orothy Gierau S. K. 3 C
stationed at Pasco, Washington
spent a week w ith her parents,
M r. mid Mrs. F rank Gierai« re
tu rn in g to Pasco Tuesday, O llie r
recent guests at the Gierau home
were M r. and Mrs W illia m llu b -
inek of K lam ath Fulls, parents
of M is. Gierau.
150,000 CARS IUNKED,
EVERY MONTH
Wartime Stop and Go
can send your car to the scrap heap!
W artim e Stop and ( io is tough on your automobile. I f
you've thought rationed driving means I f i t care, you’re
risking vour cur’s life. Neglect brings trouble — to bear
ings, pistons, batteries und other hard-to-rrplace parta.
So get Shellubrication. It'» designed to combat Stop and
( io wear. Shell w ill inspect your cur, tell you what’s needed,
mid give you a diagram-receipt telling exactly what's been
done to help vour car outlast tlw duration.
M r. and Mrs R. B Reed visited
relatives at Roseburg over the
week end anil attended church
services Sunday m orning.
Salesbooks. The Sentinel.
Change to fresh Golden Shell Motor O il...y o u r
safeguard against Wartime Stop and Go wear.
Films Developed
and Printed
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Bookkeening O u tfits , a ll kinds. The Sentinel.
REASONS
WHY YOU
SHOULD BUY
AND HOLD
★ WAR
You lend your country the money
it needs to win the war!
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You put your money in the sound
est investment in the world!
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FHA Urges
Property Owners
To Remodel Now
bers of congress but that is the
way it was done and it will have
to be passed to back up the word
°f our officials in their dealings
with other countries.
quate. The b ill the Senate passed
was definitely open to criticism
as to detail but was correct in
principle. I t recognized the fact
that the congress does not have
the right to over-ride state elec
tion laws. The Lucas-Green pro
posal, which the senate rejected,
simply ignored the plain language
of the constitution of the United
States which denies the right of
Congress to pass such a piece of
legislation.
Even before the senate acted,
the house committee on the elec
tron of president, vice president
and senators and representatives
in congress, of which I am a mem
ber, had this legislation under
consideration. A companion bill to
Lettuce Leaves
the Lucas-Green senate bill had
Though the inside leaves of lettuce
been introduced in the house by may look prettier, the outer leave»
Eugene Worley of Texas, the have greater mineral content and
chairman of our elections com should be included in the salad.
mittee. Our committee tabled hLs
b ill and it was evident that it
CARD OF TH AN KS
would not report out a federal
ballot bill. That was early in De
We wish to express our thanks
cember. Consequently Chairman to our many friends for their kind
Worley simply refused to call the sympathy to us in our bereave
committee together. When we ment, also for the beautiful flow
were about to force him to do so, ers. Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Haynes.
he called the committee and p re -1
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