SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Friday, May 10, 1940 Southern Oregon Miner Published ICvery Friday at 107 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON Leonard N. Hall ★ A DRAWN FOR THE MINER BY MAC PHERMON 1 Paid adv II, lio938. Customer- How many mile k . has it gone? Salesman (wincing)—The speed­ ometer says 11,000 miles. The own­ THE CAUTIOUS MAI.EKM AN er has given an affidavit swearing <* "11)6 automobile industry la that the speedometer has not been asked by the Federal Trade tampered with. Our office manager commisiion to adopt a code certifies that it has not been Under it there must be no ex­ changed or fooled with here. 1 can aggeration of gasoline mileage say nothing more. Washington is And in selling u second hand very strict on this point. car strict truth as to its history Customer—Has it— is demanded.”—News Item.» Salesman (with an air of finality) Customer m San Francisco, where she have to be very careful about an­ has been enrolled as a dramatic swering these art student for the last three days. Here is one month». After a short visit she that came in yes­ will return to San Francisco for another term. terday. Customer (look­ • Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sloper and daughter of Prospect spent the ing it over)—Has week-end with Mrs. Sloper's par­ it been driven ents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ixgan. much? • Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Bates and Salesman — It son Richard of Medford called on depends on what Mr. Bates’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. is meant by Will Bates. Sunday. "much." I try to • Mis Harriett Bates spent Sat­ avoid the word an having too many urday afternoon in Medford with relatives. shades of meaning. I VOTERS ATTENTION, PLEASE! Tile present County Coroner and his Ashland deputy are closing their eighth year in office. • In the interest of, and in fairness to all, this office should be changed this year. We solicit and appreciate your support "CONGER FOR CORONER" primaries May 17th. LITWILLKR FUNERAL HOME (We Never Clone) Phone 4511 Vo«. lot O m 13 X Cai». Ralph H *1 50 ONE YEAH ★ RALPH K. FOR REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMiTTKlMAN HUBS( 'HH’TION BA TEH (III Advunce) TELEPHONE H5(J1 Elici Republican National Committeeman Editor >ind Publisher Entered ax xecond-class matter Fi bi uai y 15. 1930, at the postoffice at Axhland, Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1H79 O.M.IJtwIller PEN PORTRAITS of OREGON Page 3 / W. T. (TOM) MILLER CANDIDATE FOR WWSILL POINT TUNNEL, CIRCUIT JUDGE ON 7HE PICTURE5OUE COLUMBIA R/ZER HIGHWAY. WAS PATTERNED AFTER THE FAMOUS AXENSTAS5E /// SWITZERLAND. PIONEER OREGON NEWSPAPER MAN ANO TERRITORIAL PRINTER OF OREGON /35/-/8S9. JACKSON AND JOSEPHINE COUNTIES • COUNTIES WERE CREATED TN /8R7. PRIMARIES MAY 17, 1940 —Paid Advertisement fy/'s?*'/**-'.,'.’ STASSEN GETS LIBERAL ADVICE WASHINGTON -Governor Harold Staaaen took away with him three pieces of advice from G. O. P. con­ gressional leaders on his keynote speech: 1. Make it libera) in tone. 2. Bear down strong on the New Deal’s failure to solve the unem­ ployment problem. 3. "Go the limit" in talking iso­ lationism. The young Minnesotan was strong­ ly advised to take his cue from the moderate Glenn Frank program committee report. He was warned to avoid any Old Guard strictures and to tread lightly on agriculture and relief. On these he was counseled to fol­ low the Glenn Frank strategy of a left-handed AAA endorsement, with administration of unemployment re­ lief by the states instead of the WPA. The jobless problem, Stassen was told, should be tied up with the $45.000.000.000 national debt and failure to balance the budget by pointing out that although the Dem­ ocrats had spent billions, the coun­ try still was faced with unemploy- nu nt of eight to ten million persons. On the war issue. Stassen was urg< d to stress two points: (1) that a Democratic regime got the U. S. into the flrst World war; (2) that while this administration professes devotion to the principles of neu­ trality, its conduct is characterized by a strong undercurrent of jingo­ ism. As illustrations of this the G. O. P. leaders cited the warlike pro-ally remarks of James Cromwell. U. S. minister to Canada, and the sensa­ tional statement of Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig that "war with Japan is inevitable." Stassen was told to picture the G. O. P. as the great "peace party" of the country, pledged to oppose any step that might lead to involve­ ment in a foreign conflict. • • • lem of landin» in Norway and doing battle on a large scale, that they argued vigorously against sending a Norwegian expedition. It was only the table-pounding of Winston Churchill, who demanded that an army be sent to Norway immediately, that overruled the British high command. You are go­ ing to hear a lot of internal polit­ ical rumbling in Great Britain over this. • • • • E. B. Poyer Candidate for Democratic Nomination for TAUSSIG OMITTED ONE Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig's remark that "war with Japan is in­ evitable” wasn't the only bombshell in his sensational speech before the senate ngval affairs committee. There was another that—at the last minute—he didn't Are. Halfway in his manuscript, imme­ diately following the paragraph warning that the consequences of modern warfare are so far-reaching that the "overthrow of our form of government" is not improbable, was this startling statement: "Our financial structure, none too sound at present on account of the huge public debt, cannot stand such a strain." Taussig skipped this hot dig at the New Deal when he read his pre­ pared paper, but newsmen didn't know it because no copies of the speech were distributed. A mem­ ber of the committee, who later hap­ pened to glance through the manu­ script, discovered the interesting omission scratched out in pencil by Taussig. • • • KENNEDY MAY RESIGN You can write it down as certain that Joseph Patrick Kennedy, one of the most colorful and hard-work­ ing envoys ever sent to London, will resign as ambassador to the Court of St. James just as soon as the President will let him. Joe is not in very good health, is a bit bored with the job. and also 1 he has been a little too frank for the British. His statements indi­ cating that the empire might be in for a tough time before this war was won. did not sit so well in London. ------------- •-------------- • Talent Home Economics club will meet at the home of Mrs. Roy Gish in Central Point May 14. • Dale O’Harra of Ashland and Olive Hill attended the rodeo in Medford Sunday. • A large number of Girl Scouts of Jackson county visited the county farm last Wednesday af­ NORWAY TROUBLES ternoon. May day baskets were Most spectacular British naval vic­ given to inmates. Mrs. Roy Parr, tory since the Graf Spee was the leader of the Talent group, ac­ sinking of seven German destroyers companied them. In addition to in the northern Norwegian port of the baskets, many gifts were pre­ Narvik. What most people do not sented by the girls. know, however, is that despite that victory, the town of Narvik re­ mained in German hands. What happened was that the Nazis FOR STATB were able to remove several three- inch and five-inch guns from their destroyers, beached in shallow wa­ ter. and placed them in the" Narvik fortress. These have been able to hold off British troop transports. Meanwhile the railroad to Sweden has been kept open, and the Swedes have been sending in food labeled "Med­ ical Supplies." All of this illustrates the odds against which the British arc operat­ ing in Norway. In the flrst place, the flords are narrow, easy for the Germans to defend, and difficult for large vessels to maneuver. Second, tanks and nrtillery are even harder to land than troops, so the British have no tanks to oppose the heavily LESLIE M. SCOTT armored forces of the Germans. Some of these difficulties partially are being overcome. But for a time, British general staff officers Republican Primaries May 17, 1940 Ad |«l