Friday, Sept. 20, 1940 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 G eneral Trick of Reclaiming The Discarded Chair JOHNSON ’’I'llKIlK wcie of these old ■ bent-wood chairs - both with cane seats gone und u badly scarred vurnish finish. "Get them out of my sightt" their owner said, "I can’t stand the thought uf wood bent und forced into unnat­ ural curves.” In the end she did get them out of sight und used them too. The trick wus done with slip covers made, as shown. The one you see in the sketch became a side chuir for the living HUGH S. Jaur. I' m * Mat was »NI ftvv COM MAMIE ERING ROWF R BRITAIN, V. 8. WOO RUSSIA WASHINGTON. D C.—Behind-the- WASHINGTON -This column has scenes talks are still continuing be­ been so busy kibitzing about the con­ tween the state department and Rus­ scription of men under the selective sian Ambassador Oumansk.v with a service bill that it hasn't had much view to putting relations between space for kibitzing about the so- the two countries on a more even called "conscription of industry" or keel, and perhaps evolving a little wealth—the "commandeering pow­ teamwork in regard to Japan. But er" added to the Burke-Wadsworth the talks aren't getting far. bill. Simultaneously, Sir Stafford Of course, the whole idea of tack­ Cripps, British ambassador in Mos­ ing this provision on a selective serv­ cow, has been doing his best to win ice bill is pure political hokum. It the Russians over to the British was put there to enable congression­ side. If Stalin should mass his Red al candidates for re-election to say army near the Hitler sphere of in­ to their constituents: fluence in the Balkans, it might slow "I wouldn't vote for conscripting up the Nazi air attack upon England. men's lives until I had insisted on So Sir Stafford's negotiations in voting to conscript men's dollars." Moscow are a matter of life and The power to take over private death. However, they aren’t getting property for public use is as old as far either. The Russians have been English law. It was called the law letting Sir Stafford go out on the of eminent domain. It is practiced leash just so far, then they bring almost every day in peace time and him up abruptly. is called the process of “condemna­ Just what goes on in the mind of tion.” The only real difference in Airview soundplioto showing (he damage dune to the Hercules Powder Stalin, or Hitler either for that mat­ war is that it is called “comman- company plant at Kenvil, N. J., when a series of explosions literally ter, is like doping out what goes on deering.” in the mind of the Sphinx. But there Any important difference in the blew the plant off the map, killing more than a score of persons, injur­ are certain signs that Hitler is fac­ proposed legislation is only in the ing many, and rocking the countryside for miles around. ing more and more toward the west method for determining whether the and may have given up his old de­ need is for "public use " In both signs on the east—and Russia. There cases a court must determine what are also signs that Stalin believes must be paid the owner for his prop­ this to be true. erty. That must be so because the For instance, the settlement of Constitution itself provides that pri­ Germans in the new German-seized vate property may never be taken Poland has not been successful. The "for public use without just com­ Germans don't seem to like moving pensation." into Slav areas. Furtherrriore, the In peacetime condemnation the Pan-German group seems to be court must adjudge both that the dominant in Berlin. proposed use is "public" and what For years there have been two the compensation shall be. In this schools of German thought in the proposed legislation, whether the Berlin foreign office and the war property is to be taken on a rental ministry, one believing that Ger­ or ownership basis, the secretaries many's future lay in moving into of war or navy can determine Russia, the other that it lay in dom­ whether the use is "public" but it inating western Europe. At present is—as it must be—left to the courts the latter group seems to be influ­ to determine just compensation. • • • encing Hitler. In time of war or times like these, Their plan is to create a peasant state in France and the other Latin where nearly every use in connec­ countries of Spain and Italy. In tion with armament is public, there France they have already removed isn’t much to that distinction. The all of the machinery from northern law is faulty, however, in vesting factories—lock, stock and barrel. the commandeering power in the And it is significant that the part of two secretaries. It should be in the France which the Nazis left unoccu­ President That is another lesson of pied is largely agricultural; so that 1918. Both war and navy depart- ' it will be a long time before France ments frequently commandeered the President Wilson ; ever is able to come back as an same supplies. Anally straightened that out by re­ industrial country. Note—Betting inside the diplo­ quiring all commandeering orders to . matic corps is that Hitler will move be signed by the chairman of the J in on Russia when he gets ready, war industries board. Apart from that, the Smith or sen­ even if he does try to dominate west­ ate version of the commandeering ern Europe first. • • • amendment is good. The objection­ COUGHLIN BACK AGAIN able circumstance is the nature of Somewhere in Canada gunners of the British navy are being In­ Father Coughlin is quietly plan­ the debate. There is no measure of structed by American naval gunners in the operation of a secret device ning to stick his oar into the presi­ “just compensation.” for a human that is part of the guns aboard the over-age destroyers turned over to dential campaign with a new radio life deliberately drafted into mili­ Britain. The secret mechanism has been obliterated in this soundphoto series to begin around October 15. tary service is not the donation of by the censor. But he is having a lot of trouble anything to the public. It is the arranging contracts with stations. performance of an obligation to the Since the controversial nature of public. “Just compensation,” as re­ bis talks bars him from the big net­ quired by the Constitution, for a dol­ works, under the National Associa­ lar is a dollar. On no sustainable tion of Broadcasters’ code, the only theory do the two relationships stand course open for him is to buy time on the same ground. Neither con­ on individual stations for purely po­ demnation nor commandeering are, litical speeches. This the radio as the politicos like to say, conscrip­ priest is now trying to do. tion of wealth. It is electioneering But he is encountering a lot of buncombe. • • • coolness among station owners. Finally, as our World war experi­ They are at a loss just how to clas­ •fl sify his fulminations, since his po­ ence proved, while “commandeer­ litical support has been repudiated ing” of some facilities like land, by Wendell Willkie, and he already docks, warehouses and supplies gen­ is persona non grata with Roosevelt. erally will frequently be necessary Nate—Coughlin plans to broadcast as a convenient method of deter­ by means of transcribed records over mining price, the "taking" of manu­ the individual stations. This is much facturing plants for government op­ cheaper than network broadcasting eration very rarely happens—only » —a possible tipoff that the cash isn’t once by the army at least in 1918. 1 The power to do so is useful for rolling into his coffers as it once did. what President Wilson called “ a f • • • CANADIAN PILOTS club behind the door” in negotiation. One matter discussed by the joint The practice of doing so on a rental V. S.-Canadian defense board at or fee-simple basis is useless and its first meeting in Ottawa was the unnecessary. The government has training of Canadian pilots in the neither the personnel nor the ability United States this winter. to move in and operate a private Canada's severe weather makes plant. The war department, for ex­ winter training extremely difficult ample, has all it can handle in fight­ for aviators. As one Canadian board ing a war. If government has, as member expressed it, “Your worst it did have in 1918, priority powers weather conditions are better than over power, fuel, supply and trans­ our best.” Also, Canada is serious­ portation, it has no need to take over ly handicapped by lack of train­ a man's plant. If he doesn't behave, The statue of John Milton, the famous blind poet of Great Britain, la ing planes and instructors. it can choke his operation to death The big pilot training program be­ in two weeks’ time—as we threat­ toppled from its pedestal by a Nazi bomb that fell on Ht. Giles, one of ing conducted by the U. S. govern­ ened to do a few times in the old London’s oldest churches. In the churchyard Iles the tomb of the great poet, who was the author of "Paradise Lost.” The interior of the church ment has made it hard for Canada war industries board. to obtain trainer planes and instruc­ The threat was always sufficient. itself was also damaged by the blast. tors here. We never took over any plants. No So the Dominion is eager to set up matter how you slice it, this con­ a large school somewhere in the troversy is still boloney. i a e • U. S. South or Southwest where Canadian youths could receive fly­ DRAF T LOTTERY ing instruction this winter. If the The next big news story on the necessary facilities can be obtained, domestic front will be the great na- Canada is ready to send 5,000 men tional draft lottery. In the Civil south for training. war draft, names of young men in All the costs would be borne by each county were written on sep­ Canada. The only thing desired by arate slips of paper and put in a Canada is the privilege of establish­ jury wheel at the courthouse. The ing the school on U. S. soil. order in which men's names came Note—The U. S. army has trained out was the order of their going. military flyers from South American There was so much chance for graft countries for several years, though and fixing in this method that, in only in very small numbers. 1917, we invented a new way. Registration cards in each local MKRRY-GO-ROUND board district were given a “serial Both Annapolis and West Point, at number” after they had been thor­ the suggestion of the President, will oughly shuffled. Usually there were graduate their 1941 classes next Feb­ less than 3,000 cards in each district. ruary instead of June. The first plan was to have 4,000— The war department will shortly from 1 to 4,000--written on slips of install a civilian as head of its press paper and each put into a gelatin division—an important innovation. capsule. In the presence of a crowd­ In the past, army officers have been ed and distinguished audience. The secretary of war drew out the first assigned to this job. capsule. It contained the number Newest decoration in the office of 258. That meant that in each of the The Smith twins, Bell and Nell, of Decatur, Ga., are In reverse. Their Bill Green, A. F. of L. president, Is 4,200 odd local districts the man hearts are on the right sides of their bodies, instead of the usual left a handsome silk flag, the gift of th* whose number was 258 was the first side. Their spleens, too, are on the wrong side—right instead of left, and American Flag association. who would be called for examination. their livers, too, are on the wrong side. The twins are eight years old. British Gunners on U. S. Destroyers Nazis Bomb Poet Milton’s Tomb Thia soundplioto shows Frank Frenskl, right, and Frank Frrna, plant workers of the Hercules Pow­ der company at Kenvil, N. J., In a Dover hospital being treated for In­ juries sustained when the powder plant was destroyed by a scries of explosions. Hindu ’Pro t’ room dressed in richly colored cretonne in soft red urgl blue­ green tones with deep wink bind­ ings. The legs of the chair were sandpapered and stained mahoga­ ny to tone in with the cover. The cane seat was inexpensively re­ paired with a ready made scut of plywood reshaped to fit by first cutting a paper pattern to fit the scut of the chair und then using the pattern as a guide as indi­ cated here. a a a NOTE: A« • »rrvlcr to our iratlrra, 100 of throe article* have hern prlntrd In live Separate booklvti No 3 iontalnA JO illus­ trations with directions; also a description of Ibe other book let* To get your copy of llook S. arnnjurh f