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TnniüDAY. AUGUST 1, 1840
CEKTItAI^ POINT AMO1KAX CENTRAL POINT, OREQON
iJ-JP I
THE CENTRAL POINT
AMERICAN
B
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Re-entabHabcd, September 13, 1V2S.
Entered as second class matter at
►be post office. Central Point, Ora*
gon, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
Published
weekly at
Centrai
Point, Jackson County, Oregon and
devoted to tbe best interests of the
city and vicinity.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Six Month* ............... —........... $1.0<>
One Year .................
........ 81.60
Payable in advance
Advertising rates on application
Office—Second Street, off Main
baiting extremist generalizing
on
scattered abuses by industry, the
pathetic picture of thousands of com
munities and millions of individuals
vying for "free” public money—each
striving to get a share of the loot.
Meanwhile the voters have had a
curiously defiled feeling toward an
nual government deficits running Into
billions of dollars.
These are the thing« that destroy
nations, and make rich pasturage for
fifth columnists.
They destroyed
France. If we go back to work now.
a nation of free men Under a system
of free enterprise, they will not des
troy us—we will not be caught "out
to lunch."
to determine the eligible candidates
in the First Oregon District.
Any young unmarried man. nut
less than sixteen years of age n<>r
more than twenty yeurs
years of ago on
April 1, 1941, may compete,
In order to make the required ai -
rangenientM it is necessary that ap-
plicants notify Congressman J a mes
W. Mott, 15S2 House Office Building,
Washington. D. C., not later than
September 1. 1940 of their desire to
participate in the examination.
My Soldier Boy
Yew. he’s a Soldier Roy but he's If»’
Boy still;
No one can change that, nothing ever
.MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK
will.
Tlie Aniercan people, fully awake And I'm proud to say ■'He's my son'
ARTHUR EDWARD POWELL
to the menace to our institutions, are For already many's the battle he’i
Editor and Proprietor
won.
willing to make any conceivable
economic sacrifice in the name of For he's tall, he’s straight and he’s
clean.
liberty and security. But that doesn’t
mean that the American people are The very best that manhood could
mean.
going to be satisfied with mere bills
appropriating money and
raising He answered the call his country
“OUT TO LUNCH”
gave.
France perished still observing a taxes, They are going to make sure
government enforced “two hour noon that tux money spent produces re- To do his part that liberty's flag still
may wave.
hour.” Her people were “out to suits—that bureaucratic red tape is
And
to Uncle Sam he's just a spoke
1
educed
—
delay
avoided,
cut
—
waste
lunch” socially, economically, politi
in the wheel of power.
It is one thing to appropriate bll-
cally and militarily when the Germ
I lions. It is another thing to translate That will help keep peace in this
ans marched in. This is the only
land of ours.
possible conclusion to be drawn from those billions Into airplanes and artil
news reports, and In them lies an lery and fighting ships. Any run-of- But to God he's another precious
soul,
the-mill politician can vote to spend
eternal warning for America.
A sheep that must not wander from
taxes
—
but
it
will
be
a
dark
day
for
Franco carried “social reform” to
the fold.
the point of national decay, Politic- this country if politics is permitted
To his mother he's just a little boy,
to
dominate
the
actual
job
of
making
ally we have been following a pa Hillel
A little boy who filix her life with
path. We too have been chasing our needed weupons. The wisest in
Joy.
dustrial
mid
economic
statesmanship
rainbows of unreasoned reform sur-
So to Uncle Sam we ask that he
is
vital.
Speed,
efficiency
and
eco
rounded by burgeoning bureauerucy,
would
skyrocketing debt, and crumbling In- nomy are the essentials.
He good to him and help him keep
This
is
the
time
to
make
democracy
itiative.
his manhood.
work. America's capacity to produce
The world owes no one a living.
To
God, a Mother's earnest prayer
is limitless—the American genius foi
Hitler,
The impact of realtem, not
achievement has proven itself too of Guard him, Guide him, and help him
destroyed France. There is no secur-
hear
ten in other crises to bo doubted for
it) except that attained by constant
His eevr care
a single second now. And that
labor. This is not theory.
It is a
genius must be freed of the political
basic law which will ultimately de
shackles that have been welded onto
cide our future individually and as a
It In recent years.
nation, as It did that of France.
be of a new design, more legihlo and
more attractive. It was said. In these
plates, the word “Oregon” will ap
pear between the figures “18” and
“41“ at the bottom of the plate. which
Is a now idea in design,
The color scheme will be white
numerals and letters on a dark green
background.
While the Oregon plate colors will
be the same as in Washington, it is
thought that there will be no confu-
while In Oregon it will be below In
addition, the Washington plates wlll
bear an alphabetical prefix to the
be
numerals and their plate« will
larger than those of this state.
LOCALS
Mrs. Horace Root of Wolf Creek is
in the Community Hospital, following
an emergency operation performed
Friday evening.
Mr. Chet Hale of Phoenix and his
mother Mrs. Clarence Hale of Grand
Forks. No. Dakota were callers on
Thursday at the Edw. Jones and J.
H. Territt homes.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Martin accom
panied by Mr. and Mrs Lloyd Root
NOTICE
and children of Grants Pass spent
The annual Iowa picnic will be
sion as the Washington plate varied Sunday at Diamond and Crater Lake. held in the upper picnic grounds in
considerably in appearance. In the Little Hobby Root, who has been Lithia Park at Ashland. August 11.
state to the north, the state name and visiting his grandparent« for a week Bring well filled gaskets and table
date will appear above the numerals returned home with his parents.
service. Coffee and cream furnished.
EDITORIALS
’41 License Plates
Follow New Design
For long years we have acted on
the belief that by arbitrarily short
ening hours of work, penalizing am
bition and profit, and curtailing pro
ductive enterprise wo could, some
The First Congressional District of
I
how, someday, lose ourselves in the Oregon will have one vacancy at the
distant blue haze of collective secur f. 8. Naval Acadmey at Annapolis,
ity,
We have been gyrating in a .Maryland in 1941 and Congressman
vicious, futile circle, labor against Janies W. Mott Is anxious that all
capital, politician against business ambitious young men In his District
mun, community against community, have an opportunity to try for this
with professional "reformers” stand- coveted appointment.
ing in the center of the circle like
At the request of Congress« Mott
circus ringmasters cracking the whip the Civil Service Commission on Sat
of discontent. Witness the sitdown urday, October 5, 1940 will hold a
strikfv«,
provocative, business- | preliminary qualifying examination
One Vacancy to Be
Filled at Academy
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Deposit Plan to
save your Time
Quick - Easy - Safe
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We clean and Straighten your rims
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Il N. Rivcrxklc
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Mtxlford
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ited States Nations
When Oregon automobile owners
receive their 1941 license plates, they
will find them entirely different than
any plates heretofore used in this
state, it was revealed by the secretary
of state recently.
The figure« on the 1941 plates will
Exide Batteries
hot‘
mat'C
20 PIECE STARTER SET
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then
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