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EDITORIAL-
BLACK MARKETING MEAT
From the atorics told of Ihe meat black market prior to
June 3<rth, one must conclude that the black market activities
W mv even worse than the worst of the bootlegging during the
prohibition era during the early twenties Then we were told the
folks just must have their snort of hooch regardless of w here it
cime from or how it was made.
Confessions of a black marketeer in the current issue of the
qhiqrday Evening Post and other stories in circulation during
the past few months indicate that the nation must have been
pretty meat hungry, particularly in the metropolitan areas,
where the housewives bought meat produced under unsanitary
epndifions which would not have sold at any price in the pre
war period.
, Ljjjie wonder is that no more sickness and fatalities occurred.
Now we are soon to have meat returned under about the same
eoadittons and under about the same prie* ceilings. We can
be good vegetarians under these conditions.
WON'T THEY EVER LEARN?
By CHARLES V. STANTON in tht Roseburg N- ws-Review
Our federal controllers it seems have no ability to learn
from experience. Having deprived this nation of hundreds of
thousands of tons of poultry products because of a silly. stul>-
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
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A CAREFREE GET-TOGETHER...FRIENDLY COMPETITION IN
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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*.
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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«
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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.
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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.