Friday, Aug. 2, 1P40 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 6 Southern Oregon Miner 5000-PIECE BAND AT FAIR 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.......... >1.50 SIX MONTHS 80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) ★ TELEPHONE 8561 SET YOU FREE’’ ••THE TRUTH BONNEVILLE, ANOTHER ‘NEW DEAL MISTAKE,’ ATTRACTS TWO MORE GREAT INDUSTRIES! With two more large aluminum plants considering location in the Portland area because of Bonneville power, and with one of them coming here because Tennessee Valley power already is sold out, it looks as though the New Deal’s power program anticipated a definite defense need. At least, the northwest can believe with reason that Mr. Roosevelt and his far-seeing plans have brought real industrial development to Oregon and Washing­ ton. The political opposition would much prefer to use Bonneville and all other great works as arguments against the administration, but it’s pretty hard to talk away anything as concrete and actual as the two Co­ lumbia river dams, and it is almost impossible to dis­ regard the rap’d and important use to which the new sources of pov.c; are being put—sources that never have been made available under private exploitation. ★ ★ ★ FIFTH COLUMNISTS WHO SAID THERE’D BE NO WAR NOW SAY WE NEED NO ARMY! that our armies go into battle fortified and protected by real skill in arms.” And, s|M*aking as one of the Individuals whom the compulsory service bill would include, this writer resents the obstructions being placed in path of the bill by politicians who are playing for votes. It is a national disgrace that congress­ men—and one of them but a few weeks ago a candidate for nomination as president of the United States—should make a political football of our national security. They are n shame, a black mark against democracy. Most American citizens will welcome the privilege of serving their country during a time of world emer­ gency and most will agree that if military training must come, then it should be administered in the most effective way. The American people, with all their faults, are not given to doing things by halves and they certainly are in no frame of mind to go at preparedness in a slip-shod, half-hearted way. They want to learr how to defend their country so they will be ready tb whip hell out of anybody w ho challenges us. ESSENTIAL POINTS OF COMPULSORY TRAINING BILL IN BRIEF OUTLINE JUNIOR MUSICIANS DAY PLANNED ON TREASURE ISLAND. Five- year-old Albert Romsn of Redwood City, California, signals Junior Musicians Day on Treasure Island, August 11, with a blast on his big bass horn. Five thousand pupils of ths Nationsl Institute of Music and Arts will form the world’s largest orchestra on thslr special day at the Golder Gate International Exposition when youngsters between the ages of six and sixteen from all sections of the west present a full one hour consort. AN authoritative summary of per cent nor less than 78 per cent the selective training and serv­ shall be between 21 and 31, not ice bill Introduced in congress by HOT» than 15 per cent nor leas Senator Burke und Representative than 10 [>er cent between 31 and Wadsworth, which is subject of 38 and not more than seven per current discussion in both houses, cent nor less than three per cent follows as prepared by the Mili­ between 38 and 45. tary Traming Cam|>a association "Deferment. The training and of the United States. Believing service of men whose employment that Miner readers would like to in industry and agriculture Is nec- know just what all the shouting <-saury to the national interest, is about, we reprint the summary ministers of religion, tho«e with which explains all features of the dependents and those who are un­ bill, a complete copy of which may fit shall be deferred under regu­ be seen at The Miner office: lations made by the I*resldent "The bill docs not undertake to Ijocal boards shall pass on defer­ determine the number of men who ments. should be in training or service in "Training. Men who are selected the army or navy. That is to be •and whise training Is not deferred determined by the President and shall be trained during peace time his military and naval advisers, for eight consecutive months. The subject always to the provision period may be extended If con­ that the President shall not call gress declares the national inter­ any persons for training or service est la imperilled. Vocational and until congress has appropriated educational training will be in- funds for such purpose. | eluded and the men will have an "The essential features of the opportunity to qualify for <>ffl<< r bill are: rank Pay will be |5 a month plus “Registration. AU male citizens traveling expenses. ^nd resident aliens between 18 and "For 10 years after training or 65 except those enrolled in the until they reach 45, trained men armed forces of the United States, will be reservists and subject to including the National Guard and additional training for not more reserves, shall register. than one month in any year and Men registered not oftener than three years in "Categoric«. shall be divided into two categor­ any five. ies: "Expiration of the Act. The act (a) Men between 21 and 45. would become inoperative on May who shall be liable for training 15, 1945, unless continued in ef­ and service in the land and fect by congress." naval forces; ------------- •------------- (b) Men between 18 and 21, • Subscribe for The Miner today. and 45 and 65, who shall be liable only for training and aerv- Ice in home defense units near their residences. "Selection. The men required at any time for training in peace and service in war shall be selected by lot, subject to the deferments and age groupings below referred to Monuments and Markers Until completion of the registra­ of Kronxe and Granite tion and classification ot the men Al Prices You Can Afford between 31 and 45, the selection will be made from those between 21 and 31. In order that each Next Door to Post Office group called for training will rep­ ( all Office 6261, Ile«. 64M resent a cross-section of the eli­ Evening Appointment« gible age groups, it shall be the ultimate objective that In the se­ “DEPENDABLE SERVII E" lection of men, not more than 87 CIO Leader John L. Lewis, Senator Arthur Van­ ed through the familiar system of local boards, denberg, Senator Burton K. W’heeler and his crowd and taking into account not only the needs of of isolationists are making every effort to block the the country, but the situation of the individual proposed selective training and service bill introduced in regard to occupation, marriage, dependents in congress by Senator Burke and Representative and health, is the closest approximation to prac­ Wadsworth. The group of anti-administrationists, who tical justice which can be arrived at. It is as choose to gamble with the country’s welfare and safe­ unjust to leave to the whim of the individual ty, even threaten filibuster to prevent this branch of the question of whether he will or not render the preparedness to come to a vote. service which his country needs, as It would be Wheeler and his hammer-headed crowd of isola­ to leave the payment of taxes to a like method tionists will be remembered as the same gentlemen of determination. w’ho said there would be no war in Europe and, when “We need not argue at length that if there is to be war did come, who pooh-poohed it as a “phoney.” Now an army, the training of its personnel cannot be safely they say there is no necessity for military education of delayed until the outbreak of war. The experience of a large section of America’s manpower. They strange­ ly resemble the fifth columnists who scuttled France’s England, which with her vast resources of men has defense forces, opened gates of Norway to the in­ found herself unable to put an effective army in the vader. These isolationist-obstructionists are the same field because her compulsory service law and training type of men who were shot in the fallen democracies of recruits were only initiated a year ago, is the most Life - Auto - Fire immediate and effective answer to the idea that a for betraying their countries. large and good army can be created on the spur of The Burke-Wadsworth selective training and the moment. The business of the soldier has grown service bill provides a just and systematic plan more complex. The modern developments of technique for compulsory military training in time of have placed an emphasis on the time required for peace and service in time of war. Any American training. If men are to fight for the safety of their M. T. BURNS citizen who is unwilling to agree with such a country we owe it to them that they shall not fight defense measure is selfish to the point of being ill-trained. For the sake of conserving life as well as traitorous. for the sake of victory we should see to it that our Enlistment records already have proved that there training is systematic, adequate and unhurried and is no prospect whatever of getting the number of men required for adequate defense needs by voluntary en­ Bob Hardy Climbing listment. Although it is agreed that a minimum army To Favor in Texas personnel of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 is necessary, from League as Southpaw Jan. 1, 1940 to June 7 but 14,000 men voluntarily an­ swered their government’s call for military service, Bob Hardy is going great guns with Beaumont in the Texas giving the army a total strength of but 233,397. league, according to a banner To meet requirements of modern warfare armies in a Beaumont daily. July 23 Hardy pitched a 3 to 1 must be raised not haphazard and at the eleventh hour, victory against the league-leading but in advance of conflict by a systematic plan so de Houston Buffalos, the losers' only coming off a change-of-pace signed that each man may serve in the capacity where run ball in the fourth inning which he will be most effective, and that the operation of went over the fence. The Beau­ paper gave Hardy an en­ basic industry, of agriculture and of the arts and mont thusiastic write-up for his out­ sciences essential to war may be disrupted as little as standing performance. Hardy singled in thé fifth and possible. This can be accomplished only under an oblig­ smacked a hard one to center In atory plan where the state determines who should the center and stretched it into a with hustling leg work. He serve and where and in what capacity. The voluntary double scored one of his team's three system is not only utterly inadequate to raise modern runs. batting record, including armies, but is disruptive of industry and agriculture the Bob's Houston game, shows him and of the specialties and sciences which are the allies charged with 25 times at bat and hits for an average of .280. of armies. And according to the Military Training seven Bob has batted in three runs and Camps association, it has been the experience of the scored four times. British and ourselves in the World war that volunteer­ Beaumont's only southpaw has in 28 games, a total of 90 ing after a while had to be prohibited because of the pitched innings, and has walked 30 men while striking out 28. He has won confusion and disturbance which it produced. four games and been charged with Explains the training camp association: three losses for a pitching average of .571. “The obligatory system, reasonably administer- ---------------------------- Nothing serves ALL the family so faith­ SCOUTS DEFEAT TALENT Troop 13, Ashland Boy Scouts, fully, so well as does electricity, and at took an 8 to 7 noftball win over a phenomenally low cost when you con­ the Talent Boy Scout* at the high AS TO COST ... school field Friday afternoon. Go­ sider the dozens of necessary tasks ing into the seventh inning the taken over by your electric servant. ■^THATEVER your decision may be, you are local club was trailing 7 to 4 but a hitting Bpree drove across the assured of a service satisfactory in every Throughout the entire house, from winning runs. Batteries were D. way. water heating to refrigeration, electric­ Warren to K. 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