Friday, May 3. 1940
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Page 6
------------- ------------------------ -------------------
■ . —
, ■
--------------- ---------------- ------------------------- ----
G eneral PEN PORTRAITS of OREGON
Southern Oregon Miner
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND. OREGON
Leonard N. Hall
★
★
JOHNSON
r taor
SUBSCRIPTION
RATES
(In Advance)
ONE YEAR
SIX MONTHS
★
$1 50
80c
i Mailed Anywhere in the
United States)
TELEPHONE 8.561
SET YOU FREE”
•THE TRUTH W1U
FOUND—ONE REPUBLICAN WHO ADVOC ATES
GOVERNMENT COMPETITION IN BUSINESS!
During an election year newspapers are given an
unusual opportunity to put candidates on the spot, for
at this time newspapers—like voters—are petted, pam­
pered, flattered and catered to. It is a mighty tempt­
ing advantage.
Some time ago The Miner fussed editorially because
the county school superintendent (a friend and cap­
able educator) was making printing his official hobby,
not only for his own office but also for other county
officials. This practice has taken business away from
a number of printing firms and. in effect, becomes a
misuse of taxpayers’ money by using it against those
who help foot the superintendent’s bills.
Perhaps now is an opportune time for The Miner
and other printers to ask Charlie Bowman a few per­
tinent questions, with the hope of getting a more sat­
isfactory answer than “We can’t afford to buy our
printing, so we spent hundreds of dollars of taxpayers’
money going into the printing business ourselves.”
How about it, C. R.? Aren’t we entitled to know
BEFORE election day just how far you plan to carry
this idea of using our money to cut our throats?
★
FOM/SMl!) ■
u
DONOVAN’S SOLDIERS
Wild Bill Donovan, the able law­
yer, who turned out to be a whiz­
bang soldier, a fighting fool and a
medal of honor man in the World
war, is advocating something new
in raising armies.
He wants us to stop sending our
kids first to war. He says that the
only excuse for it was that they
have greater endurance in a sudden
spurt of speed, though not tn long,
steady pulls.
Since soldiers are.
to a continuously greater extent,
going to war on wheels and pulling
mechanical levers instead of club­
bing muskets, he thinks men up to
500—and even older—could do just
as well.
I know what is eating Wild Bill
1 have felt it gnawing me. He is
reaching the age where, if we don’t
pass a law or something, he might
have to stay out of any possible
shindy himself
Seriously. Bill's got something
there.
Boys scarcely more than
children fight wars.
There are
more reasons for ihis than Colonel
Donovan gives. One is that, where
there is any element of volunteer­
ing. they are more impulsive and
WASHINGTON.—A group of farm
leader« went to the White Hou«e to
urge Roosevelt to support the Jones
bill, which would cut interest rates
on government farm loans.
And
while they got the President's sup­
port, they also got an earful on an­
other subject—why the U. S. will
not get involved in the European
war.
The discussion began when one of
the farmers asked Roosevelt wheth­
er propaganda and the loss of for­
eign markets would affect U. S.
neutrality.
This brought an em­
phatic negative from the President.
“I don’t think the American
people will lose their heads to the
extent of being drawn into the
European conflict," he said in ef­
fect. "It is true that the emotions
of people can be quickly aroused,
but reason and logic always triumph
in the end. That's why our demo­
cratic form of government has sur­
vived au luu*.
“Take, for example, the arms em­
bargo fight. There was a lot of
talk from certain elements during
that controversy, that if we lifted
the embargo it would drag us into
the war. Well, all that talk has
died down and you don’t hear it
any more. There was no truth in it
and it evaporated.
“The same happened during the
debate over extending the recipro­
cal trade treaties. There was a lot
of unfounded talk then, but it has
all blown over unless political op­
portunists inject the issue into this
year’s campaign.”
“What about the Nazi invasion of
Denmark and Norway?” asked an­
other of the farm visitors. “Will
that endanger our neutrality?"
Again Roosevelt shook his head.
"As long.” he replied, “as we keep
a level head, our feet on the ground
and maintain a liberal government.
we have nothing to worry about.”
Bombing Bill White.
President Roosevelt scored a neat
one on his old friend William Allen
White, the sage
of Emporia,
Kan., during his
off-the-record ses-
the
sion
with
newspaper
edi-
tors recently at
the White House
Incidentally, the
remark was a
clue to what
Roosevelt thinks
is the chief dan­
ger to the United
States — Nazi William Allen
forces in Latin
White
America.
The President was talking about
the war and the question of national
defense, especially as it applied
to the Western hemisphere.
To
illustrate his point, he turned sud­
denly to Mr. White, who was sitting
in the group before him.
“For instance. Bill White may
think he’s a lot safer in Kansas than
I am up in Hyde Park, N. Y„”
said the President, “but he isn't.”
He went on to explain that if
enemy bombers were to seek out
Hyde Park they would have a long
way to fly across the Atlantic. But
if they wanted to bomb Bill White
in Kansas, it was relatively easy
for them to fly up from Mexico
where enemy air bases could be
established.
• • •
Under the Dome.
One of the most inspiring sights
in our democratic government is to
see the President of the United
States address a joint session of
congress. These gatherings include
not only the President and mem­
bers of the house and senate, but
also cabinet members, Supreme
court justices, foreign diplomats,
members of the President’s family,
plus social and political leaders—
all seated in the house of represen­
tatives.
But—some members of congress
heave a sigh of relief when these
sessions are adjourned. What they
know, tbOMih pikers do pot, is that
have just re­
cently put in stock a
new cleaning pro­
duct—
LEADING FIGURE IN OREGONS RAIL RONE! HISTORY
INSTA KLEEN”
T TMNSCOHriNEAlT-
AL Lt NE. HIS GIFT OFYSO 000 TO THE UNIVERSITY
PLACEO H/M AMONG THE GREAT 0ENEFACTOR5 OF OREGON.
for cleaning wood­
work, walls and
floors. It removes
dirt, grease and soil
marks instantly.
AÓ45 WOO»'
(WE /S
FC>SS71 MOUATA/N,
A cibWAL (MOMO
OF J, OOO. OOO
YEARS AGO.
WE RECOMMEND IT
AN THE VERY FIN-
ENT PAINT CLEAN­
ER WE HAVE EVER
HANDLED!
planned to take over Home project
Campus Day Initiates I ; each
(’all and get a free
year for improvement and
of school grounds
Spading and Cleaning I beautification
sample bottle and
by students.
At Ashland Hi School Foliowring the lunch, which wan
try it yourself.
served in the main halls been use
★
Paul Satko, builder of a now famous Ark in Puget
Sound waters, sailed into trouble and publicity last
week when his unweildy-looking craft lodged on a
sandbar and his children were forcibly removed by
juvenile authorities.
All the fuss is based on pilots’ and seamen’s com­
plaint that the craft is unseaworthy for a proposed
trip to Alaska. Doubtless lives of the family would be
jeopardized by such an adventure.
However, if the craft is so unseaworthy and a
menace to navigation, why didn’t the wise boys who
know so much about the sea pitch in and help Satko
build his craft the right way? Strange that they should
be silent until the voyage was under way and then
make their grandstand play.
Had the family’s best interests been in their mind
they well might have furnished plans and advice in
the Ark’s building instead of waiting to break a man’s
heart with arrest and ridicule.
FIRST AMERICAN-
01HLT AND
DE St G NEO LOCO­
MOTIVES 3U/LT
//V NEW YORK
CITY IN 1030
,
PROTECTORS OF THE ARK’S’ CREW
ARE A LITTLE LAGGARD WITH ADVICE!
U. S. AND THE WAR
DRAWN EOK THE MINER BY MAC’ PHERNON
Editor and Publisher
Entered as second-class
matter
February
15.
1935, at the postoffice at
Ashland. Oregon, under
the act of March 3, 1879
★
HUGH S.
COL. WILLIAM DOXOl’AX
He would keep youth out of war.
rush first to the recruiting sergeant.
A youth has fewer responsibilities
—to a family, a farm, a business,
or a job.
•
•
Men in actual combat service are
only a fraction of the troops used
in war. Supply and other auxiliary
services require more soldiers than
does flghting. There is no sense in
culling out a physically perfect kid
and setting him to rolling pills in a
medical supply department in Kala­
mazoo. If we relaxed physical
requirements to run-of-mill stand­
ard and created classes for ‘‘special
and limited military service” for
the less than perfect, we would
greatly reduce the drain on the best
of our youth crop with no loss in
military energy.
We tried that
toward the close of the World war
and it worked.
Furthermore, if we impose no
arbitrary age limits, but only limits
of physical fitness, even for com­
bat service, we shall be using great­
er common sense and be getting
far greater economy in the use of
our national manpower.
ALASKAN FRONT
A glance at the map of the North
Pacific will show that we are closer
to Russia than any other gxxi
neighbor except Canada and Mex­
ico. At Bering straits, Siberia and
Alaska almost touch. That is under
the Arctic circle and is not a dan­
gerous menace.
But, far to the
south of that, our Aleutian Islands
lie like stepping stpnes op th£ v ay
the roof covering the house cham­
ber is in danger of caving in some
day and wiping out the nation’s
political leaders.
Furthermore, the roof of the sen-
ate chamber is supported by simi­
lar materials, and architects have
recommended that it be replaced.
Serious-minded Horace D. Rouzer,
a««i«tant architect of the Capitol,
solemnly warned members of the
senate appropriations committee re­
cently that "in some instances the
pins should not be stressed over
12,000 pounds, but computations
show stresses up to around 75.000
pounds per square inch.” He was
referring to the roof on the senate
side of the Capitol.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Members of the German embas­
sy, apparently none too enthusiastic
over Hitler’s treatment of private
property, are buying up quantities
of silver plate at U. S. jewelry
stores. This is one investment they
can keep with less danger of Nazi
confiscation ,
. One member of
the German embassy staff confided
at dinner the other night that he
was worried over Germany's loss
of ships, because now perhaps Hit­
ler wouldn't have enough ships to
land troops in England.
Phenomena
of
phoenomenae
greeted early risers la^t week
when some 250 high school stud­
ents, initiating their first campus
day, were seen spading, hoeing,
grubbing, pulling dandelions and
taking part in other various forma
of labor to brighten and enlarge
the somewhat small campus and
to set a precedent for years to
come.
The boys, about 110 in number,
spaded and cultivated the small
park north of the tennis courts,
as well as the surrounding terri­
tory. and the park row across the
street, while the girls picked up
paper, pulled dandelion« and weeds
out of the lawn, washed woodwork
and fixed the picnic lunch. It is
to Kamchatka. The outlying Rus­
sian islands of Komandorski and
Bering seem to be a mere exten­
sion of the Aleutian archipelago and
are within a few miles of the Amer­
ican Near islands.
We have no fortification or air
bases in the Aleutians, notwith­
standing that they skirt the shortest
of the Great Circle route between
Seattle and either Japan or the Si­
berian coasts and that enemy air
bases there could threaten the whole
North Pacific and our main defen­
sive line—Alaska, Hawaii and Pan­
ama.
It is a threatening and dangerous
situation. I know of no professional
authority that does not agree that,
purely for defensive purposes, we
must guard this flank. The army
has authority fur an auxiliary air
base at Fairbanks. Alaska, but the
proposed main operating air base
is at anchorage at the head of Cook
inlet. This will require $14,000,000
to complete and urgently and im-
mediately demands $4.000.000 to
start.
The strategists of the house •p-
“econ-
propriations
committee
omized" here, while refusing to do
so to one billions of vote-getting
handouts. They blacked-out the an­
chorage. They ’•economized” also
on reserve airplanes for the army
cutting thé number asked from 476
to 57. Part of this cut the war de­
partment approved in view of the
of
increased foreign purchases
I
'
military types, but it did not do so
«□ to 166 planes of a type the need
for which was not lessened by
expanded airplane production ca­
pacity.
NEED HELP?
DO YOU WANT A
★
★
★
★
★
★
t
★
Gardener?
Carpenter?
Handy Man?
Office Help?
Stenographer?
Companion for
Children?
Cook? Helper?
THEN CALL THE
Ashland Chamber
of Commerce
of rain, the group took part hi
community singing and heard a
abort talk by l’rof. William Jones,
head of the Willamette university
economics department Following
the talk students were dismissed
for remainder of the day
An examiner of operators and
chauffeurs will be in the Ashland
city hall from 1 to 5 p m. Friday.
May 10, to issue license« and per­
mits to drive cars.
IT’S THE LITTLE
THINGS THAT COUNT!
_
*
• a
We have been in the business of serving farmers
a long time and have found that having just the
small things—a repair, a strap, a bolt or handle,
that fits—at a reasonable price is real service!
YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT HERE!
HARNEAN REPAIRS, ANAPA
A BUCKLER, ATRAPA, ETC.
HANDLES
HOSE—
foot, 6c to
FORK, SHOVEL, AXE,
HAMMER, MAUL
per
4A_
..._........... AW
LOWEST PRICER IN TOWN!
HOSE GAIXiETA —To re-
pair or couple,
from Ic to
15c
A Good Irrigation
SHOVEL
METAL OK CANE GRAMA
Well tempered, urfwt
blade, a good tool! ...
SWEEPS-^
15c to
We Are Proud
Of Our NEW
LAWN MOWERS — Rublwr
tiren, 16-inch, a
SA
a
price . vOsOv
Medium-Priced
TOOLS
Mowing Machine
REPAIRS
If you’ve been holding off buy­
ing tool* I mvhiim - of high price«,,
see our new lino!
AT REASONABLE PRICES
CARPENTER AND MECHANIC TOOLS OF A
QUALITY THAT PLEASES AND A PRICE SUR­
PRISINGLY REASONABLE!
M. C. LININGER & SON
Piel’s Corner, Next to the Park
Phone ft.T’l
~~~* * ~-----
VOTERS ATTENTION, PLEASE!
The present County Coroner and his Ashland deputy
are closing their eighth year in office.
In the interest of, and in fairness to air, this office
should be changed this year.
We solicit and appreciate your support "CONGER
FOR CORONER” primaries May 17th.
LITWILLER
FUNERAL HOME
Phone 5541
And we'll nupply ,v«ur needs
from our Hat of willing and
deserving workers.
Ashland Lumber
Company
(We Never Clime)
C.M.LItwIller
Phone 1511