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••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.
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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;
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(b) Men between 18 and 21,
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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
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between 31 and 45, the selection
will be made from those between
21 and 31. In order that each
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resent a cross-section of the eli
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gible age groups, it shall be the
ultimate objective that In the se
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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-
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Troop 13, Ashland Boy Scouts,
fully, so well as does electricity, and at
took an 8 to 7 noftball win over
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the Talent Boy Scout* at the high
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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. Caton for Ashland,
Reeds to Baylor for Talent.
ity plays an important part—and does
it
at LESS COST in Ashland!
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