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Friday, March 8, 1940 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 X PEN PORTRAITS of OREGON Southern Oregon Miner Leonard N. Hall Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Editor and Publisher ★ ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3,1879. ONE YEAR SIX MONTHS ★ $150 80c ( Mailed Anywhere in the United States) TELEPHONE 8561 SET YOU FREE” •THE TRUTH WILL LET’S KEEP Ol’K SIGHTS LOWERED ON OUR LOCAL PROBLEMS! Along about this time every year a lot of hooraw is raised locally over the coming crop of tourists. That they leave an appreciable and useful sum of money in Ashland cannot be denied, but the suspicion arises that possibly the tourist trade is emphasized to the point of neglect of our other suffering assets. Tourist business is desirable, yes, but we shouldn’t let enthusiasm for this distract our attention from other equally important activities, such as increasing local payrolls, encouraging our college, pushing our building industry and maintaining industries already present. Ashland’s need is more payroll that stays here rather than an increase in transient travel. ★ ★ ★ FIRST WE GIVE ‘NON-MILITARY’ RELIEF TO EUROPE, AND THEN------• Just as we feared. First, America was appealed to for relief of distressed Finland, and the response was indeed warm and spontaneous. Now, according to the news, Herbert Hoover is presenting a pitiful picture of the plight of “7,000,000 Poles in need of food.” So that’s the way the wind is blowing, is it? There’s to be no end to repetition of situations of the last gen eral World war . . . Uncle Sam again is being played for a tender-hearted sucker as the come-on for more active participation in Europe’s murderous follies. None will dispute the bravery, the deserving need of the Finns, nor will many deny Poland’s humanitar ian claim to sympathy. But how far are we to go in healing the temporary wounds of Europe? While we rush succor to one nation, war-mongers impoverish and cripple another. And, somehow or other, The Miner can’t help but feel that Hoover is an unwise choice as figurehead for American sentimentalism. His name insistently brings to mind memories of sacks of sugar hidden away in granaries, ersatz flour for home consumption, later starvation among our own people. We had better take the realistic view of the present disorders in other lands: To most foreign minds all Americans are sentimental fools and will submit to endless leg-pulling if flattered with praise for their humanity and generosity. Let warring nations—aggressors and victims alike stew in their own broth for awhile, lest we land in the stew right with ’em. Perhaps humanity’s best in terests will be served if America first licks her own wounds and fortifies herself against such atrocities being repeated in the new world. LETTERS To the Editor LET TAXPAYERS DECIDE To the Editor: Before the city solons make it a $5000 hole-in-one on the golf course, the proposal should be passed upon by the taxpayers. Just why a golf course should be »considered a municipal asset we *• ■flail to percieve. It strikes us that ‘ municipal funds should be used solely for civic purposes. If golf addicts are obliged to garner their clubs for lack of finances, they should not be downhearted, as they can get all the desired ex ercise and thrills by chopping j "Did you see,” asked Senator Dumm. ‘ where a group of women recently voted for a change in the I term mother-in-law’?” "I did." replied Representative ’ Dummer ‘They voted to change ' it to kin-mother, the big sillies." "The foolish season is here ahead of time." said the senator, "and win ter must be nearly over. There are many names I could call the old girl, but kin-mother is not among 'em." "What was the big idea, anyhow?" asked Dummer. "Were the moth ers-in-law complaining?" "Mothers-in-law are always conk plaining." snapped the senator. "Do you see this bruise over my eye?” "1 do,” said Dummer. "How come?” "From walking up to my wife’s old lady and saying. ‘Hello, kio- mother’; that's how I got it. She thought I said something else, and sum HAS ONE OF THE FEW CONTINUOUS SPOUTING GETSERS IN THE WORLOf THE COLUMN OF WATER FROM THIS HOT 3PRIN6 REACHES A HEIGHT OF 10 FEET T ntth its GROUNO Of INEXHAUSTIBLE fertility was the GOAL OF THE FIRST SETTLERS MENO CAME TO THE GREAT Oft EGON iM kr when 1 tried to explain she said mother-in-law was good enough for her. and it would have to be good enough for me." "I noticed that there were many other names suggested before the final vote.” said Dummer. “One of 'em was 'Blitzkrieg Moth er.' " laughed the senator. "I rath er liked that one It will linger in my memory long after I have for gotten all about kin-mother.' But do you know what 1 think is called for now?” "No." "A new name for mothers-ln-law to call their sons-in-law and daugh ters- in-law." "Haven't our mothers - in - law enough names for them already?" asked Dummer. "I mean something printable; something that can be used in po lite society." argued the senator. • • • "How about asking her to call you a kin-son?” asked Dummer. "She would re taliate by calling me a kin-bum and say she misun derstood me.” barked Senator Dumm. "Couldn’t she just call you a kin-guy or a kin s a p?” asked Dummer. "She might be glad to." said the senator. • • "Will anything come of the whole business?” asked Dummer "Nothing whatever," declared Senator Dumm. "A man never re fers to his mother-in-law as his mother-in-law, anyhow. He either calls her 'that woman,’ ‘old iron sides,* ‘the crackdown' or 'the fam ily static.* ” • • • •‘Do you Know what I call mine?” asked Dummer. “What?” “The Roman Galley." declared Dummer. "Why?" asked the senator, a bit puzzled. "Becau.’e she is always putting in her oar,” concluded Representative Dummer, dodging a chair. • • • LINES AFTER LOOKING OVER THE PICTURES For Robert Taft, as fisherman. I simply cannot root; He fishes in high-polished shoes And in a business suit. • • • Add similes: as uncomfortable as a skiing enthusiast on a Caribbean cruise. • • • Mr. Dewey says the time has come for ua to lighten our belle. But too many Americans think their belts are tight when It’s merely indigestion. • • • weeds, running the lawn mower CAN YOU REMEMBER— etc. Away back when an icebox looked At any rate Ashland will con tinue to grow and prosper even if like an icebox? the golf course is converted to such base uses as the raising of Walt Disney’s “Pinnochio” is garden seeds. all right. The trouble, however, _ OLD TIMER is that it encourages too many (Name on File) other animated cartoonists. • • • DR. REDFORD RETl'RNS THE PROOF Dr. Walter Redford, president of 1 know when winter’s on the lag the Southern Oregon College of Education, returned recently from And going to the dogs: St. Louis. Mo., where he attended It’s then my mail is flooded with meetings of both the American Those Ashing catalogues. * • • Association of School Adminis trators, and the American Asso ISN’T IT SO? ciation of Teachers Colleges Manhattan, so al) the records show, In books and public prints • Mr and Mrs. Art Conner of Was settled 300 years ago . . . Weverhauser camp shinned and And hasn't been settled sincel visited with friends here Saturday. Avery Giles. • Mr. and Mrs Char'es Calkins • • • of Yreka visited here Saturday. —:--- •----- - K'uni limed from page 1) a id life of the Pacific northwest I I thia same connection of gov- e.nment subsidized power, con- :e-:.i now Is preparing legislation which will necessitate TVA to ma- I dally Inci e um ltd > alee to raiae imiey to pay five state revenue '"St in t txes when TV'A put pri vate utilities out of buxines« f COUNTRY" A New Hampshire congressman. Senator Tobey, seems to have fizzled out in his effort to hamstring the census bureau’s compilation of facts. Tobey would eliminate questions about individual incomes from the 1940 census questionnaire. Just how such information, given and held in trust, would do injury to the individual or to the nation was not made clear by the senator and it appears that the President’s appraisal of the effort as “entirely politi cal’’ was justified. Politicians have sunk to a low point even for poli ticians when they extend their partison well-poisoning to as nonpartisan an activity as taking of the federal census. Opposition to the fact-gathering effort at a time when complete facts are of vital importance to the welfare and future of the country is mighty cheap conduct. Surely the nation can bs trusted to gather all the facts about itself, and to guarantee that confidential information will not be viclated, even in spite of the Tobeys. ★ A NAME FOR THE MOTHER-IN-LAW ★ THE EFFORT TO BLOCK CENSUS QI ESTIONS WAS IN EXCEEDINGLY BAD TASTE! ★ DRAWN F<>K THE M1NKK BY MA( FHERKON to $4-*00. But again Matthews was saved by one vote—4 to 3. FRANCES AND HOTTENTOTS By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON —That secret Dies committee meeting did not consider new investigational plans as an nounced by Chairman Dies What actually took place was a fight to fire J. B ("Doc”) Matthews, the committee's so-called "Communism expert” The effort came within one vote of succeeding. Matthews was saved only by the slim margin of 4 to 3. The dismissal motion was made by Rep. John J. Dempsey, silver- haired New Mexican, who has long been opposed to Matthews’ employ ment. Supporting Dempsey were his two liberal colleagues. Reps Jos eph Casey of Massachusetts and Jer ry Voorhis of California. Voting with Dies, who hired Matthews and has been his chief backer, was the fourth Democrat Joe Starnes of Al abama, and the two Republican members. Noah Mason of Illinois and J. Parnell Thomas of New Jer sey. Dempsey's move provoked a heat ed clash. In demanding Matthews’ ouster. Dempsey charged the inves tigator with bringing the commit tee into disrepute by his "radical background" and his "passion for grinding personal axes." As an instance of this he cited Matthews' report on alleged Red in fluence in consumer organizations. This report, issued last December from Dies' home in Orange, Texas, without the knowledge or consent of the full committee, vigorously as sailed the Consumers Union. "I hold no brief for this organiza tion." Dempsey asserted, "but it happens that it is a competitor of Consumers Research, in which Mat thews has a large financial interest. But he didn't mention Consumers Research in his report while he at tacked Consumers Union and other consumer groups.” Dies militantly rushed to the de fense. "I know Matthews is a former radical,” he shouted, "but that doesn’t alter the fact that he has been very valuable to us in expos ing the inner workings of the Com munist movement." "If that is so,” broke in Casey, "then let's keep him in that role. I have no objection to keeping him on our payroll as long as he re mains in the job we hired him for —an informer. But I strongly ob ject to his acting as the principal investigator of the committee, ask ing questions of witnesses and is suing reports he has no authority to put out.” Undaunted by the rejection of his dismissal motion, Dempsey offered another to slash Matthews' salary, upped from $3,600 to $6.000 by Dies, ASSISTS "Tobacco Road” has run so long It must be a federal project. • • • Attention, Mr. Farley I I ran acrosa a postage stamp the other day with George Washington on it. Milt the Berle. ------------- •-------------- • Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Detrick vis ited In Blv Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Detrick. • Cliff McLean of Klamath Falls viklted here last week-end. He Done ’Em Wrong. . . . jo/ln I.. (CIO) I.run gets tomr information about torn» ladirt. John L. Lewi» got an unexpected kickback from his rip-snorting as sertion that Madame Secretary Per kins knew as much about labor prob lems "as a Hottentot knows about the moral code." Two weeks after the convention he received a letter from a foreign missionary reading as follows: "Dear Mr. Lewis: I cannot let the insult you hurled at the Hottentots pass unchallenged. I have lived and worked among these people for many years and have found on the whole that they have a much higher respect for the moral code than peo ple who live in so-called civilized nations. "If what you say about Miss Per kins is true, then she must be a very excellent public servant. I cornmend her." • • • ROOSEVELT AND DIPLOMATS The President has discarded all the formal trapping* for receiving a new diplomat. He tried the in formal manner and liked It This means three principal changes in procedure. He receives in his office instead of in the White House proper; he wears his busi ness suit, instead of pin striped trou sers and cutaway coat; and he omits the reading of the official messages These messages are still prepared and released to the press, but the new diplomat is saved the trouble of reading, and the President is saved the trouble of listening. In cidentally, the last message present ed was the longest on record—that of Panama’s new Ambassador George Boyd. The President now uses the time to better advantage. With no one in the room except himself and the diplomat, unless an interpreter Is required, he carries on an informal and friendly chat on matters that interest them both. • LeRoy Clarke of Rogue River visited with friends here last week-end. • Mr and Mrs. James Metz of Glide, Ore., visited here last week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Major Carter • Mr. and Mrs Bob Purves of Tule Lake, Calif., visited with friends here Monday. 9 A <• 9 Not generally known is that there lius I m - vii lesentliM-nt aguuitl Itiinneville in Idaho Il mu the day the lute Mr. K oks uiinouiic»<d hr planned «•eliding electric energy Into southern Idaho. This was rn- tlmsnistii ally approved by Jim I'UIM-, Idaho wnutor, and con tributed to Pop»-'» defeat for reelection. the Idaho |M*opir realized Hint if Kim accom plished his purpose, It would | rrvvnt Idaho ever develop ing it« own waler power re source*». In the recent hear- Ings of the appropriations loininlttee Administrator Hav er declared he hud no Inten tion of invading Idaho; be sides, he explained. |Miwer cannot tie sent 500 miles, which Ross said it could. rri Among other recommendations, the house committee Investigating NIJ til will make Is one that no employer be required to negotiate for collective bargaining with any union representative who la not m American citizen. This would iffect several labor leaders in the Pacific northwest who are aliens Another recommendation being ■onaidcred la that when an em ploye la discharged the NUiB can not order him rrhlred and given back pay for u longer period than six months Purpose of this la to force the board to act more ptly on cases and proMHI UM board from ordering employers to P<> men for two and more yrars back pay, aa has soinetiinea oc curred There are inatancea where the back pay of a number of men was so great that the employers had to go out of business. 9 9 9 Farm Credit administration, the agency from which thousands of farmers of Washington and Ore gon have received loans, Is going through a transformation which has so alarmed the farm bloc in -u-nate and house that measures will be taken to remove thia igency from Secretary of Agri culture Wallace FUA was given to de|Mirtment of agriculture by President Roosevelt's reorganiza tion last year. In recent weeks FUA has asked for the resigna tions of all the key men who have been with the organization and Secretary Wallace and the new governor, Dr. A. G. Black, are planning a new policy. Farm groups say Secretary Wallace and Governor lllm-k want to mix rural ri-llef with a credit reservoir, or "public funds with private Invest ment.” No apprehensive «re various group« that FUA will lose Its effectiveness that the Grange, Farm Bureau federa tion, National Woolgrowern, National Association of Live stock Producers, and National < oo|H-ratlve council ure join ing with a group of senators —among them On-gon's Mc Nary, republican leader—to insist that FUA I m * made an Independent agency and nm oil business principles, as It was before the reorganization. rev Approval has been received from the President for a state-wide pro ject in Oregon under the sponsor ship of the University of Oregon for a tabulation of the personnel data on all state and local em ployes. This information is to be used as a base for a pension sys tem The allocation is for $7830 9 9 9 When Herbert Hoover appealed to the senate committee on for eign affairs for relief for Finland and Poland he was accused of seeking publicity to build up a de mand for his nomination by the republicans in Philadelphia June 24. Deep Solemnity Marks Every Service . . . Peace and exclusiveness beyond evalu- stion plus assumption of al) neqessary details . . . these and honest price«» have won for us the adamant faith of hun dreds. Funersl Service Slit e 1897 TJTWILLER FUNERAL HOME (Formerly Stock's Funeral Parlor) C.M.LItwWer We Never Clone—Phone 4541 B A
