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STATUS OF COLLEGE MEN
Published every Thursday at Cave N A T IO N A L
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Entered as second-class matter
June 11, 1937, at the Post Office "
at Cave Junction, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
week by Col. Francis W. Mason of last ye a ‘-
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
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N E W S P A P tR
.P U B L IS H E R S
One Year ............................... $2.50
Six Months ............................ $1.25
Outaide Josephine County
--A S S O C IA TIO N
One Year ............................... $3011
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J t E DWOQD EM PIRE NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHERS Unit.J
■»»W O O D
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A S S O C IA T .» N
RENASCENCE OF PROHIBITION
Medical science has made huge strides in
recent years, but the researchers have still not
discovered the “busy-body” gland, oversecretion
of which is undoubtedly to blame for fanaticism
in otherwise sane human beings. What makes a
milk-ehewer or a deep-breather or a graham-
breader so positive that he and his small clique
hold the key to salvation and that the world is out
of step? What mysterious force drives him to
impose his will, by force if possible, on the vast
majority of more temperate thinking beings?
The failure of prohibition in this country is
there for all to see and it is not our intention to
warm it over. However, what many of us do not
realize is that the same band of zealots who
foisted this ghastly joke on the American people
is still determinedly drilling away, like a band of
dedicated termites, in a piecemeal attempt to
create the same situation all over again. No
gain is too small to strive for; if they only succeed
in making it difficult for a person to get a drink
rather than impossible, it is hailed as a huge
victory. They have made many a bootlegger
happy by fostering restrictive state liquor laws
and drying up counties across the country in a
checkerboard pattern.
Recently this movement reached the acme of
asininity when two “temperance” organizations
raised a rumpus in Washington over the fact that
beer is occasionally made available to the boys
fighting in Korea, logistics permitting—one can
{»er day. One asks why the GI’s can’t have soda
nop, fruit and vegetable juices or just plain, pure
American water. The other says: “Surely, if
beer can be supplied, wholesome fruit juices and
soft drinks can he made available where the local
water supply is unsafe.”
These people brought no evidence to indicate
that the GIs do not have soda pop and fruit juices,
and it is our Ixd that these beverages are present
in much larger quantities than beer. And during
the hassle just past, a few million gallons of
“plain, pure American water" were canned and
shipped all over the world—came in very handy
for shaving.
Without actually putting it into those words,
the organizations paint a picture of the cruel
army shoving a can of beer at a poor (!1 who is
weeping piteously for a few drops of water and
telling him to drink it or else. “Both expressed
concern over the chance of the young fighting
men lun’orning alcoholics.” On one can of beer
a day—when you get i t ; you boys who fought the
last one know how that goes.
To digress a bit, no one, not even a Carrie
Nation, has accused the British Navy of not
knowing its job; those boys do pretty well when
thev have the tools for the task at hand, and they
fight on half a pint of rum a day. The British
sailors do not have to drink this rum—if they
desire they can "stop their grog” and receive its
equivalent in cash Most of them drink it.
Getting luu-k to Oregon, the minders-of-
othcr-people’s-business have fostered an initia
tive measure which would prohibit the sale of
any "advertised" alcoholic beverage. It will ap
pear on the ballot and you will have an oppor
tunity to vote on it.
This is part of the heckling campaign; if they
tried to vole total prohibition, the voters would
wake up and vote it down with a thump, so they
attempt to sneak in another liquor restriction in
a state that is pretty thoroughly “regulated” as
it is. The bill has wonderful possibilities; inas
much as practically every national magazine ami
out-of-state newspaper would carry liquor and
beer advertising, it could pretty well dry the state
up to everything hut mountain dew. Not that
Oregon didn’t produce some pretty good moun
tain dew in her time, and cheaper than the green
front grocery too.
The American Legion, at its recent State
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NINTH COAST DEFENSE
service.
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„ Regulations
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provide that „ a -„
co. i. j A e prescribe fo r the organiza-
I ege student
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has • pommenccd
com m enciu. tion of a coast defense unit of the
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new 'O regon national guard reserve
work in an academic year befoie
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¡ n , induction
i „ P t i o n * a s issued last week by G , overnor
" has , been issued,
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nave his
nia in.
in ! Douglas McKay. . The order
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„„fi faetnrilv serve, • which now has three
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certificate
that , he
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pursu ng a full-time
college
* ents and an air branch,
Sf study to his local hoard.
Maj Gen. Thom as E. R ile.
Such a postponem ent will ho in sta te a d ju ta n t general, said ,t
. would provide a naval reserve arm
effect until the end of . n euri n. on
coast and Columbia and
academic year, in June, 1951, or W illam ette rivers to be made up
until the student leaves college or of yachtsm en, fisherm en and other
fails to do satisfactory work prior small boat owners designated as
thereto.
the Ninth coast defense. Platoons
Tem porary regulations gave lo will be a t coast and river points as
cal hoards permission to place c e r far east as U m atilla and south to
tain students in class 2-A. As soon Salem.
as schools begin enrollm ent this
fall this deferm ent will no longer H A IR S T Y L IS T S
be given tlie men and the pro
The Oregon H air Fashion annual
cedure already explained will he in
council was welcomed to the capi-
' effect.
On th eir enrollm ent in college tol Sunday by Budget D irector
the men will he re-classified to 1-A H arry Dorman (sans chapeau)
and will receive their armed forces representing G overnor Douglas
physical exam ination. This will en McKay.
D uring the m eeting, 18 girls
able them to know immediately
w hether they qualify for »service. from sta te institutions were given
They will then he ordered to report perm anents and hair styles by ten
for induction in the regular m an of the top hair stylists in Oregon.
ner hut the induction will be post President C hristine L arsen said
poned until the end of the school approxim ately 150 hair stylists
year if requested by the student. from all over Oregon attended.
G raduated students whose cur Among the guests was the national
ricula include part-tim e assistant- chairm an, Don Johnson.
ships in teaching or research are
to be considered as full-time NEW CROP OF LAWYERS
Cerem onies ad m itting 129 suc
students.
cessful law students to the sta te
bar were held in the state suprem e
! $ 3 0 0 0 W A G E M E D IA N
court cham bers Monday morning.
More than half of O regon’s
The announcem ent th at 129 out of
workers who are covered by the
189 students had passed the tests
state unem ploym ent commission
given in July was made last week.
earned $250 a month during the
This year only 68 per cent of those
last year. The top w ar year, 194 1,
taking the tests passed, while last
saw only 34.4 per cent reach the
year 76 per cent passed.
$3000 class.
Median earnings of all covered
B A N K S C H IE F IN B O S T O N
w orkers jum ped to $1569 in 1949
O regon’s
superintendent
of
as com pared with $1367 in 1948. hanks, A. A. Rogers, left last F ri
A total of 240,000 regular workers
day for Boston, Mass., to atten d
are included in the covered rolls.
the annual m eeting of the associa-
I tion of supervisors of sta te banks.
P O L IO IN C R E A S IN G
J Rogers, previously president of
Tw enty-five new cases of polio the association, is now chairm an of
myelitis were reported to the state the executive comm ittee. The con
hoard of health last week. The vention was scheduled to open
cum ulative total for the current W ednesday, Septem ber 20.
Editor
J. C. Abernathy
By M URRAY WADE
K id d in g Hirn s e l f
Convention in Grants Pass, concluded a resolu
tion regarding this measure as follows:
“Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Ameri
can Legion, Department of Oregon . .. that Initi
ative Bill No. 317, being a bill to prohibit sale in
Oregon of liquor that is promotively advertised,
and to be voted on by the electorate of Oregon on
November 7, 1950, should be overwhelmingly re
jected by the people of Oregon for the reason
that said bill is a hypocritical piece of legislation
which, if passed, would return Oregon to the law
less, immoral and cynical evils of prohibition and
submit our people to a suppression of free speech
and free press, tending to break down the
strength and moral fiber of democratic gov
ernment.”
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THE EDITOR’S DOGHOUSE
Two or three people have mentioned that
something seemed a trifle out of adjustment in
our front-page date line last week—two or three
hundred, that is.
This is just another example of the sad fact
that people love to find fault, because the date
lines have been correct several times lately (a
good 50 per cent, anyhow) and nobody mentioned
it at all.
We must admit however, that aside from
prodding the editor's ribs with a stiff thumb,
most people were merely curious to know how
such a mistake can occur; the mechanics ot the
thing. How can we get up into October when
everyone else still thinks it’s September?
Well, it’s like this: Instead of sticking each
type in, one letter at a time as in days of yore, it
has become the custom to cast a whole line at a
time (»n one slug—this saves time and magnifies
errors in equal proportions. Date lines are cast
up two months in advance and piled in the rack;
each week the printer picks the top date line slug
out of the rack and throws it in the form—some
weeks, that is. Other weeks we forget and run
last week’s over again. Last week somebody
turned the pile over, and the last one came up
first. That is dirty pool in anybody’s league.
Why don’t we read the slug; why don’t we
catch the first few copies off the press9 For the
seme reason that people run out of gas with a
gauge as big as an 8-day dock staring them in
th face; in other words, nolo contendere.
This thing is a real challenge, but we’ll lick
it ■just give us a few more weeks before you
start setting your calendars by our date lines.
HAMBURGER HAVEN
Buy ’Em By the Sack
H ave a 'b u rg er or a hot dog w hile at the
fo otb all game thi» Satu rd ay.
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