* The KeMliu-l, Cottage Onoe, Oregon Thur»., Aug. 4». 10*0 OUR DEMOCRACY—— W m .< Published Every Thursday at «•«W Cm« ¿rntinrl IF, C. VLARTtil _................ Editor. Publisher itton rates, cash in advance. No subscription for less than 3 3 Mos. 1 Yr. 6 Mos. fn Lane-Douglas Counties - ____ 2.50 1 50 1 00 150 Outside This District....... ...... ............... . ........ .3.00 1.75 Foreign Ratea on Application. Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. Memlee NATI EDITORIAL- BLACK MARKETING MEAT From the atorics told of Ihe meat black market prior to June 3- borri and senseless stand on grain for feed, they are repeating identically the same performance in the current sugar contro­ versy. Northwest poultrymen were forced to liquidate more than 50 per cent of their flocks when, under the guize of shipping wheat, to starving, war-ravaged nations, the federal government clamped an embargo on wheat for livestock and poultry feed. During the process, the government accumulated vast stores of grain; stores so vast that it would have required many months to find cargo space to transport them. While tonnage accumula­ ted at seaports, awaiting shipment scheduled far in the future. Northwest poultry and livestock producers appealed for feed to save an important segment of this nation’s food supply. They urged that wheat be diverted from stdrage—wheat whieh could not be shipped because of lack of cargo space—with replacement t<> be furnished from the oncoming crop, a crop which now is being piled on the ground throughout the nation because it can­ not be transported and properly stored. But our bureaucratic planners arbitrarily refused all pleas and»* were forced to liquidate more than 50 per cent of our poultry flocks while the wheat we so urgently needed remained packed in elevators and warehouses at our various seaports. It-will require several years to restore poultry production to gational requirements and shortages in poultry and poultry products will be keenly felt by the nation for many, many months, simply because our stubborn bureaucrats refused to adopt a realistic, sensible policy. It would be expected that such an experience would have taught our administrative functionaries a lesson. But. instead, we find them repeating the same silly procedure in the case of sugar. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have a bumper fruit crop. Admittedly the food siutation in the United States and elsewhere would justify every possible effort to utilize this food resource to the greatest extent. Not one particle should be wasted. House­ wives should can fruit fpr home use. <>ur canneries should be operated at full capacity. Any of this canned fruit whieh might be surplus on domestic markets would find ready use abroad. In the midst of all of this great abundance of fruit are ware­ houses bulging .with sugar. There are not enough freight cars to distribute the sugar equally throughout the country. In fact, there if some evidence that there is a national sudplus of sugar and there is no need for distribution. The OPA claimed some sec­ tions lacked sufficient supplies of sugar to meet unused ration atamps. but searching press associations have failed to find such conditions in the areas named by the OPA. The transportation emergency is so acute that surplus fruit in the Pacific Northwest cannot he moved in fresh state to other markets. Fruit must either be used locally or must rot on the ground. It would seem that any 10-ycar-old child Rould see the necessity for removing sugar from refinery warehouses, to make room for the incoming crop and permit housewives and canneries to conserve our record fruit crop. But just as foolishly as they forced liquidation of poultry flocks by their arbitrary stand on feeds, our bureaucrats are refusing to permit an extra sugar allotment in the Pacific Northwest to allow us to save at least a portion of our fruit crop. Fruit will not wait for the unwinding of red tape. Already our losses are enormous. And, in the meantime, swivel chair bureaucrats continue to say “No.” Won’t they ever learn? A bachelor is a man who looks, but never leaps. Afore Grain will make hungry Europeans better bred. A vacation consists of equal parts of simburn, sore muscles won»» 1,1» ■ | >H I ■ n ..■■■■■ COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION Ftl Il ITI II Finis I—■■ .... , , If You Are Looking For A Bargain A CAREFREE GET-TOGETHER...FRIENDLY COMPETITION IN EVERYTHING FROM CAKE-BAKING TO LIVESTOCK BREEDING... A CHANCE TO STUDY NEW METHODS IN HOMEMAKING AND SEE THE LATEST IN FARM MACHINERY... KUN FROM FERR/S. WHCSU TO HASNFS* R*C£. OUR COUNTY FAIRS REPRESENT A HAPPY COMBINATION OF PLAY AND THE SERIOUS BUSINESS OF UY/NS THAT tS AMERICA AT ITS BEST. THE STRANGEST THING BLACKBUTTE Bruce Pooler has been on a vacation at Mercer. Orc. for a month. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Funk and son Alvin: also Mary Lee Rlivins were dinner guests at the home of Wil­ lard McKay on his birthday Aug­ ust 22 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kaynes and daughter Janie went to Eu- Eagles Lodge Meets EVERY WEDNESDAY 8 00 P M o'clock EAGLES HALL 50 tfo ■ gene one day last week. Mr. and Mrs J. P Jones and daughter Lavonne were callers re­ cently at th«- home of Mr. anil Mrs. Tohle Manning. Alvin Funk cut his linger In the power saw one day Inst week while at work He will bo away from work for several days. • Ronney Hunt went to eastern Oregon and brought back a saddle ■ horse YOUR NEW HOME (on wheels!) is in our showroom and ready for delivery SEE the beautiful new Adama Trailer Home complete with every modem convenience that makes tor eomfortnBle thing. Three rompili t rooiw.: Spui-iiMio thing and dining ream with a datano that Involili-» a double bed. light kitchenette with range anil re­ frigeration. private master bedroom. Complete and ready to move into — from elearance light» to , enettiin blind»! modest down payment — the balance on convenient monthly terms and your housing problem is solved. • A Do'ng her best to serve you promptly Right now, our board* are butter than they have ever been before...to buvy it it not alwayt pot- tible for our operator* to antwer your tall a* promptly a* they would like. The reason i* that we arc serving more cut- Comer*...who arc making more call*...than even at the war-time peak. New equipment i* on the way... million* of dollar* worth up and down the Coast...to take CBN of our waiting applicants and to furnivh a better service than ever to all telephone user*. We assure you that our operators are doing everything they can to furnoh you the prompt and courteous service you have bRCotnc accus­ tomed to...Timuk you. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Cottage Grove Motor Co 112 N. Ninth Phone 77 524 Main St. Telephone Cottage Grave 83 MAN WITH TRE PIPE. A NATURAL ROCK FORMATION ON TRE SCENIC HIGHWAY BETWEEN 'JAPA AW MONTICELLO. CALIFORNIA. ZV/J HAWK KILLED A SEAGULL IN MD-A!R AND IN TURN WAS SHOT BY A HUNTER NEAR THE WAVERLY COUNTRY CLUB COURSE, PORTLAND, OREGON. ------------------------------------------ ——.—.. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS Sometime ago we found it nec­ essary to establish a deadline on accepting advertising copy. No ad­ vertising will be accepted after Wednesday noon. Our classified advertising rates are still at a prewar level. We may be forced to raise the classified rates, but the reason we have not is that we feel we are doing a real community service in pro­ viding information on a buyers' market. Hereafter we will not make re­ funds to advertisers under any conditions. We wilt not divulge any information about any ad until the paper is printed. We will not be responsible for any error ap­ pearing in any ail after the first issue of such advertising. Let us help with your insur ance problems. We are glad to discuss your coverage and rates. Our time is yours for the asking. His Farm Fields Are Factories J.B. Leonard KEEP OREGON GREEN Three thousand five hundred lives are lost each year through fires on farms and in rural com­ munities of the Uihted States. This rural loss is about one-third of the total national loss of lives due to fires. Today, farm products are more important than ever before in the national defense program. KEEP OREGON GREEN. .1... Rubber bands. The Sent I net. Insurance Service Res. 8F4 Phone 34 Wiser Building 617 Main St. for building frame work and floors for woodsheds and New Locker Boxes— machine sheds—mostly all dry. We now have our new cold storage plant in operation. Customers whose names are on our list may now be aa- signed their locker. Cottage Grove Ice Works Phone 255 1!. S. FARMERS have made our field» into factories. lems.’’ We have but one set <»f problems for everybody. We live better than people in other coun­ tries because our farmers get more out of the soil. If strikes, for instance, restrict the sup­ ply of furm implements ami supplies through work stoppages, or make their cost prohibitive, America is out of gear. 1 The steel industry takes pride in the way it has helped bring about this improvement in farm practice. Tools of steel—from the plow­ share to the giant combine—have multiplied in number and increased vastly in quality. We have it in two by fours up to two by twelve suitable Creswell, Ore. Lumber Supply America uses hulf of It* annual lumber supply for e->nstructlon, th* rest for furnitur* and other manu­ factured at tides. American (aldicn wSo hav* kit thj bcacSci in A-my lending c.sH during inuat'oni now «»icy ridet in pedc'lo bact> rn th* Rivtoa. Hi»«, brane*. Corporal Ralph L. Jo-~». left, end Cargo rot Thomoi E. William», both of Jockron, Tennotscr, ora gu«:tt cl tho Army of th* Rivitra R*cr«a- uonal Arao. Tho R«gutgr Army i, accepting cnl«tm«nt> from gualifiad < han, IS ta 34 yean af age, incluov*. I Green’s Hardware & Supply Elustaii L«»» Two hundred riglity-two million •ere* of rrop and grazing land have been lost In tho United Stale* by water ami wind erosion. Recently churned but tot eon- tains H5 per cent fat and II per. cent watei s—sr Phone 225 Mr and Mm Dien Jenkins and I Mr ami Mrs Hill Funk spent Sun day aftermsm at the Tom Funk home Mrs Hoy Eddy has been ill fur several weeks. । Mr. ami Mrs. Willard McK ly ami Mary Lev Blevins spent Sun­ day afternoon at the home of K <’ McKay. Mr. ami Mrs Howard Keene and family from Saginaw-, one day last week had dinner ami qh-nt the evening with Mr and Mis Amon Keteherside Mrs E M McEwen calliil on Mrs T<»ni Funk Sunday afternoon. "lavetión Craft"— Poshvor Styl« 1 Fifty years ago the typical farm in America used about 3 tons of steel. Today the figure is nearer 17^ tons. That is a measure of the modernization of agriculture and an indication of the inter­ dependence of steel and farming. We no longer have separate "farm produc­ tion problems” or "industrial production proh- Anything which tends in this direction is bad for the farmer—and finally for everybody. Fanners know it. Everybody else should kllOW it. ★ ★ ★ Steel mills need all the scrap iron and steel they can get. The shorlafie is serious. Farmers can get extra dollars and help increase steel output by sending worn-out machinery, etc., on its teay to the furnaces. A merican I kon ano S teel hfliTrn;, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York 1, N. Y. The Institute has printed a booklet STEEL SERVES THE FARMER. Write for a copy and it will be sent gladly.