Friday, Sept. 27, 1940
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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HOMAS JEFFERSON,
WHO WROTE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE, SAID:
" to speak mis thoughts
••THE TRUTH WILL
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THE SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY FAIR
‘EARNS ITS SPURS’!
K
| J EFFERSON S PRINCIPLE
If doubt existed in the minds of interested parties
IS THE KEYSTONE OF
as to the advisability of holding a fair in the southern
DEMOCRACY IN WHICH
part of Jackson county that doubt was entirely re
i DIFFERENT OPINIONS
moved Saturday and Sunday when the Bellview anc
ARE HEARD BEFORE
Talent Granges staged the first Southern Jackson
ISSUES ARE DECIDED.
county fair at the Bellview Grange and school. The
initial effort of the Patrons of Husbandry was markec
with success.
. . .
Exhibits were many and of a high order. Attend
ance, while light on Saturday, more than met expecta
tions on Sunday and the fair resolved into a community
picnic where all enjoyed a good time at small expense
and without having to endure the usual fanfare anc
hocus-pocus accompanying the larger and more
pretentious exhibitions.
Preparation for a fair, even on the relatively small
scale of the Southern Jackson county event, involves a
lot of work. This fact may readily be attested to by
IDI ictators smother free speech
the Grangers. It is one tiling to decide to have a fair
SOMETIMES BY DEATH PENALTY — KEEP FROM
and quite another thing to interest exhibitors to partic
THEIR.
PEOPLE THE INFORMATION WITH WHICH
ipate. In this, the initial effort, the sponsors were
TO FORM OPINION.
entirely successful. The finest products of Jackson
county w’ere on exhibition, not because of the small
financial gain to be had from premium money but be
cause producers of the district believe that no other and with the republican nomination tucked into his
region has more to offer and they are proud to show strong box, Willkie comes to Oregon, home of another
important public power project, and reverses his rec-
the home folks what can be done here.
ord
and his previous stand on the public power issue.
Ashland should co-operate with the Grangers in
Unlike
the leopard, he appears to be able to change
establishing the fair as an annual event. Results to be
obtained from this type of community enterprise are his spots at will to suit local geography and the mind
more far reaching than some of the entertainment of voters.
Although The Miner is not terror-stricken at the |
features promoted in the city and no financial risk is
remote
possibility of a Willkie success in November,
involved.
this newspaper finds a dwindling confidence in char
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acter of a man who changes his tune so easily just
TURNED TABLES MAY BE HUMANITY’S .
before election. If Wendell Willkie can reverse himself
GREATEST HOPE FOR SURVIVAL!
on public power now he conceivably might again re
Although Americans pride themselves in being a verse himself.
docile, peace-loving people, many are deriving quiet
Wendell is a good man for a certain type of sup
satisfaction from reading accounts of effective coun porters. He is a holding company product, a Wall
ter-raids being carried out by the Royal Air Force of Street habitue and those whose interests lie in finan
England against Germany and German-held areas.
cial circles would be well represented by such a presi
So reason most folks that if there must be a bloody dent. But the average orchard-run small business man,
war, then let the attacking side also feel the sting of the farmer and laborer can well assume that such a
destruction, the heartbreak of wanton death. Let the darling of big business might not be the sympathetic
foe who loves to dish it out take it too.
champion of the common man which he pretends.
Talk to any veteran of the last war and he’ll de
The Miner would rather judge Willkie on the power
clare that the allies should have marched right on issue by his record of recent years than by his declara
through to Berlin then and given the hinterland a belly tions on the eve of election. We’ve learned that poli
full of what war really means. And now, for the first ticians—and certainly Willkie is one, in his amateurish
time, the efficient, thorough aryan finds war smashing way—are not to be taken literally. They don’t mean
HIS homes, paralyzing HIS factories and mangling HIS what they say, and they deftly avoid saying what they
families. The awfulness of what he is doing might oc really mean.
cur to HIM, if the retaliatory raids by the RAF
Willkie is a Wall Streeter masquerading in plain
continue.
clothes to kid the voting public.
And for that reason the recently aloof American
now can be seen cheering with genuine enthusiasm and
vice president, Rena Russell, and
admiration for his British cousins who are so courage Lincoln School secretary, Harry Kannaato.
• Philip La Douceuer moved to
ously fighting back. It is an American conviction
Ashland and entered the fourth
that those who have been visited by war’s terrors lose • On Sept. 23 Mr. Tripp begun to grade on Sept. 23.
teach instrumental music at the • Geraldine Newman brought a
their taste for it and, until now, the habitually aggress Lincoln
school. Twenty-two pupils kitten to school Wednesday. All
ive German has done his fighting on others’ soil.
will meet three times a week for the children liked it.
instruction. The wind instruments • James Crimmins moved away
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Include clarinets, slide trombones, to Klamath Falls.
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WILLKIE IS A GOOD MAN, YES—
IF YOU’RE HIS KIND OF PEOPLE!
How times change! A few short months ago Wen
dell Willkie gained national prominence, and the un
dying gratitude of Wall Street, by acting as the spear
head in the fight against public development of natural
resources. Willkie, an unknown corporation lawyer and
holding company president, made a “hero” of himself
when he fought the Tennessee Valley development to
the highest court in the land and did all in his power
to obstruct and sabotage the government’s effort to
complete the conservation, navigation and power fea
tures of TVA.
Now, with a presidential election a few weeks away
Why a Pre-Arranged Funeral?
FIFTH—To avoid over-expenditures. Minds encom
passed by grief are not always capable of normal
consideration or equitable decision. The tendency to
over-spend is irresistible, resulting many times in costs
far beyond the resources available.
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LITWILLER
FUNERAL HOME
comets and saxophones. The chil
dren hope to have a successful
orchestra soon.
• The girls and boys of room 7
are having fun playing baseball
together. The girls are showing
the boys that they can play as
good a game as they can
• Room 6 has a food map of the
United States that the boys and
girls are enjoying very much. It
shows the kinds of foods raised
in the United States and where
each is raised.
• Monday, Sept. 23, Dorothy Ki
ser from Bellview, Frank La Dou-
ceure from Pinehurst school and
Alson Vestal from Lincoln school
entered the 5 B ciass in room 6.
• Pauline McDougal of the fourth
grade moved to I^akeview on Tues
day, Sept. 24. Her classmates are
sorry that she left Lincoln school.
• The iwm officers of the fourth
grade are: President, Roger Hall;
• The first grade children in room
1 had a reading party for the first
grade children in room 2. They
read their stories and served
cheese crackers.
• Jimmy Dodson had a tooth
pulled. His daddy pulled it.
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LETTERS
To the Editor:
You asked why I am against
Roosevelt. Mott put a bill through
congress to help dependent* of
Civil war veterans. My dad was
one. Roosevelt vetoed the bill ev
ery time.
MARION VAN NATTA.
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• Nan Goeller of Klamath Falls
visited here Sunday with friends.
Miss Goeller is a former SOCE
student.
Mrs. Gertrude Wilmeth, formerly
with Fortmiller’s, is now available
for knitting instructions at the
(We Never Close)
C.M.IJtwlllnr
• Chester Squire* of Idtkcvh’W
spent the week-end here visiting
his mother. Squires is principal <>f
the North latkevlew grade school.
• Mr and Mra. George Martin are
the |Mtrenta of a son, I mihi Mt.inlay
REGRET!'AHIX TALK
at the Community hoapital.
Many ¡wvple are beginning tu • Jack Petersen left Sunday for
wa wider at the ¡>ur|MMc that la Corvullia where he will ranune his
guiding Wendell L. Willkie In the •tudle* at OHC.
type of camiMügn through which
he m seeking to be elected presi
dent of the United Slate*.
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Thing* are being said by the
Republican nominee' which ahould
not be said in a time when the
nation la busy preparing 11* phys
ical def snare again« t |ma*lble
armed threat* to it* independence.
There is a certain amount of tol
erance for the thing* a candidate
says in the heat of campaign if
he i* making progrvaa When he
with
la campaigning backward*, tut
Willkie seem* to be doing at thia
HORSE
SHOW
time, there la danger that tome of
and RODEO
hl* not-to-well informed charges
may do permanent injury to the
FMTLANO, 0MS0N
morale of citlxen*.
October 5 Io 12
Either Willkie or hi* clo*e ad-
viaora demon t rated u surprising
18 Showi la O n
lack'of responalbillty during the
Slav«« • •>.. .»*•>
|>aal week when the president won
ob » root
I.Llblla ol
charged with being responsible
pu<o b>o4 Ltaoalooh.
for the Munich pact, and when the
Do,a. Fovliiy, Pot
Stock, Wild Uta. Maa.
word Totalitarianism wa* hurled
■ I«ol»aod aad Load
into the headlines. Even Willkie
Prod.ala. 4 H Cl.b
himself cannot be so confident
• ad Saaitk H.gkaa
that he is considering hi* election
Vocatloaal kd.calloa
a* assured. He must have imagin
Work, alao Coatbiaad
Hoiaa Show aad thrill,
ation enough to admit the jx»udbll-
la« ladoor Rodau
ity that the president will again
be returned‘to office. What, then,
L«|* Prsffitum lull
is hl* purpose in necking to de
stroy the morale of the people’’
10 ULI FORES-nil LIJIES
His talk ia working against, rather
than for him, and if even a small
percentage of the people believe
LUSTER-FOAM Oivtl
half the thing* he 1* ahouting, the
nation is in a fair way to being u
TIITM TH! MOST
shamble* Internally after election
MAhVI LOUS LUSTSR
The nitzi fifth columnist work*
AND SPARKLE.
in ways that are devious, but hl*
alm always 1* to destroy the con
fidence of the nation in it* govern Reach«« decay-ridda* “ Blind »pot»”
ment. it* Institutions, and in it* that ordinary paste*, powder* . . .
leaders. Much of the national cam-
even waler .. . may not enter
paign talk that is now being heard Il’B hem! Thu m<wl drllalil fully dlffrrr.il
is plowing fertile ground for the Unit II I«mlr you rvi-r lu-»rd of Wtimi milt*
see<l* of suspicion and distrust and bruah touch liui NKW formula Uairrlno
looth 1‘aalr, auiMirrliarard »Illi l.uatrr-
President Roosevelt, due to hl* PiMtlu
drtrryrril, Il lii.lanlly »prlii*» Into
great leadership of the past seven an auuuln* tiuliiilr Itatli" that makrw your
BETTY JANE DRESS SHOP
NOTICE
Order of the County Court that
the County Clerk pay a bounty of
$3.00 on Coyotes from September
20th to December 31st, 1940. Both
dates included.
G. IL CARTER,
County Clerk