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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, Nov. 15, 1940
Four Score!
Making Your Own
Hook Rug Design«
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Washington. D. C.
1,000 PLANES A MONTH
A DECISION IS MADE
WASHINGTON —The figure which
Regardless of our feelings, it is
defense commission experts have
fixed privately for new factories for the duty of us all to accept the elec
that new plane production program tion's decision. That is our de
is $2.000.000. (MM)
This is the pro mocracy, for which we must fight
gram recently announced by Wil- to the last in this dangerous world—
the most precious thing in our
liam S. Knudsen.
Present plane deliveries to the tional life.
This may not be easy. This
army, navy and to the British are
around 1.000 fighting ships per been the bitterest campaign in
month. The army's production goal experience Deep wounds have been
Low blows
—3.000 planes a month by 1942. with given—and received.
a comparable increase in engine have been struck. Hatreds have
Class and religious
output—obviously means an enor been incited
mous expansion of manufacturing prejudices have been inflamed
Hints of reprisals, repressions and
facilities
even
persecutions
have
been
Some of the companies already
dropped. Never has this country
are erecting new plants, in addition
been so torn and disunited.
to previous enlargements. Curtiss-
We can't let this go on. It is
Wright and Glenn Martin have new
perhaps understandable in such an
facilities under way; Bell Aircraft is
election, but as that vote decides, so
adding 400.000 square feet of space
must it be. Bad and surly losers
near Buffalo; Boeing at Seattle re-
at such a time as this are bad and
ceived $7.368.000 for a new plant,
surly Americans.
and Vultee $4.294.000 for the same
There remain issues that were not
purpose.
voted. Chief among them is the
But all this is only a drop in the extent to which our people wish to
bucket if 50.000 planes per year are be involved in war. This must still
actually to be turned out Produc be debated and fought in congress,
Scene at the Union station plaza as thousands gathered to welcome
Ignace Jun 1‘adcri w»kl, famed
tion facilities will have to be tripled, but as to everything which goes to President Franklin D. Roosevelt upon his return to Washington from his Polish planisi, (left) Is greeted by
if more than 4.000 planes, engines ■ make us strong tor defense, our war home in Hyde Park, N. Y., where he had listened to election returns with Anthony Biddle, U. H. ambassador
and armament for them are to ring factions must do their utmost his family. The photo »shows a procession of cars headed towards the to Poland, as the pianist arrives In
come off the assembly lines each I 1 io ue united—one for all and all for Capitol, on the way to the White House.
New York on his eightieth birthday.
month.
i one—the country.
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I: is a good thing too that the elec
PROBLEM TOWNS
tion was close. We should hear
The defense commission is getting no more the cries of the victors,
its noisiest headaches from the de “we have a mandate,” and, there
mand of inland communities for de fore, we hope, no new attempt to
fense industries.
Hardly a day ride rough-shod over minorities
passes without a bombardment of through popular inhibitions and con
demands that plants be located in stitutional restrictions.
certain localities. To this din has
Goose-stepped Nazi 99 per cent
now been added a barrage of new “ya” votes are what create dictator
demands by towns that have al ships and make wars. There will be
ready been favored.
no war. There will be no American
These defense boom towns, over Fuehrer, if we can maintain a large
run with thousands of new residents, and live political group of opposi
are confronted with serious housing tion in the country as well as in the
sanitation, police and other prob congress.
lems and are hounding the commis
It was a hard fight. I for one, am
sion for help. In some places the glad it is over. For me it involved
problem is so serious that the com something like the job of “taking
mission is considering recommend in washing by day and digging wells
ing to congress a public works pro by night” I'm tired and battered
gram «vhich would give them the and I'm going down to Bethany
projects outright—that is. 100 per Beach and sleep for a week —turn
cent free.
ing over each day only long enough
An example of such a boom town to get my column out
is Charlestown. Ind., site of what
In this domestic eruption of cam-1
may become the world's largest
This soundphoto shows the new Narrows bridge at Tacoma, Wash.,
Howard C. Ilopsun, founder of the
powder plant A sleepy hamlet of paign and election, we seem to for-j
billion-dollar Associated Gas and
800. overnight Charlestown was get all about the war which, after third longest single suspension span In the world, as It started to dis
integrate and fall 190 feet into Puget Sound. The bridge was completed Electric company, shown in fedrral
transformed into a seething city of all, is the greatest interest outside
last
July at a cost of $6,400.000. Note the car on the bridge which was court. New York city, M his I!#.
5.000, with perhaps 15.000 in pros our shores. Some columnist who
abandoned by its occupants as the bridge began to collapse.
000.000 fraud trial started.
pect by January as the new powder seems to have miraculous sources
of
information,
says
that
Winston
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plant expands.
Naturally this boom brought thou Churchill is getting very impatient
sands of workers, speculators, camp about us. He wants to know when
followers and others to Charlestown. we are coming into this shindy.
I hope Churchill can restrain him
Housing soon became non-existent
prices skyrocketed, and one enter- self because we’re never coming in. i
prising realtor even started to sub It will cost us another hundred mil
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divide an ancient cemetery into lion and if we spend that much I
and get into this war. we shall have '
town lots.
. ’Ail I '
The town has no sewer system. seen the last of our democratic and '
economic
system
as
we
have
known
the tiny municipally-owned water
plant is totally inadequate, and the it.
The most remarkable thing I saw
community treasury is so broke
that it can't even pay the salary of in this election was the enthusiasm
a town marshal, although a govern of young people for Mr. Willkie. He ,
ment payroll of more than $75,000 himself seemed to grow younger in
is now cashed every week at the this campaign regarding of its gruel
town's bank. The boom has spread ing demands. I never saw Mrs. |
to Jeffersonville, 12 miles away, and Willkie look better than on its last
f v
to New Albany, 18 miles distant, night. I think she is the best cam
I 'fc
where housing can't be had for love paigner he has had. When I told
her that, she said:
or money.
“Oh, no, all I did was to wave."
In this dilemma the town fathers
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Although
he lost, Mr. Willkie rep
turned to Uncle Sam, to the WPA,
the U. S. Housing authority, the resents something most precious and
Federal Housing administration, valuable in American life, and the
even the White House, and finally whole country has come to know it.
to Frank Bane, director of the state Eggs, wastebaskets and political
; >
and local division of the defense scurrility cannot obscure it
If he had had at least a little pro
commission.
At the President’s orders, a plan fessional organization — if he had
has been worked out under which been attended by people with a lit
the defense commission, the state tle more experience in campaign
of Indiana and the town will set up speaking—if advisers who were rank
a Joint planning body to transform war interventionists had not pre
*
Charlestown into a community capa vented him from taking the forth
right
stand
against
war
that
is
in
his
ble of meeting its problems.
heart, his election would have been
• • •
Frank McElhcrron of Philadel
a walk-in. I know that from my
phia, who was arrested on return
INAUGURATION STANDS
own experience in many states, and
ing from a trip to Scotland, for
The presidential inauguration is before audience i in the aggregate
breach of the neutrality law. The
nearly three months off but already tens of thousands. It was the livest
Col. C. R. Morris, left, stirs the blue lottery capsules containing the law forbids any American citlien,
white-overalled carpenters are busy issue in this campaign, but such
erecting stands and seats on Capi was Mr. Willkie's instinctive shrink draft numbers ot 16,500,000 registrants, while Capt. R. B. Davidson pours with certain exceptions, from going
tol Plaza. Reason for this unusual ing from any appeal to emotion— the last ot the capsules into the historic bowl. Note the “second story” into war areas defined by the Presi
haste is—the defense program.
any appeal to anything but what he added to the famous goldfish bowl after It was discovered the bowl was dent. Tills in the first case of ar*
rest for violation of this law.
"If we waited much longer,” ex regarded as debate on absolute fac not large enough to hold the 8,500 capsules.
plains David Lynn, veteran Capitol tual issues alone—things that did not
architect, “we wouldn’t be able to reside in conjecture but that he
get any lumber. The erection of could prove by the book—that he
the great camps for the selective wouldn’t use it.
service trainees has caused a short
It was pretty but it wasn’t politics
age in the lumber market. The gov —even perfectly legitimate politics.
ernment is buying up all the good Yet. much as I regret to see a failure
lumber it can get for the canton fully to express and to represent
fl*
ments.”
what I know to be the heart and
v
The lumber shortage also will af soul of the American people—be
fect the seating capacity. There will cause there was no way to lay it out
2»^
be room for only 12,500 spectators— with a T-square and compass on a
2,000 less than in 1937. Congress drawing board blue print — he
M Ì
appropriated the same amount of wouldn’t touch it. Yet, I am glad to
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money as four years ago, but with have been so closely associated with
increased material and lumber costs a man so scrupulously conscientious,
the $35,000 isn't going as far.
so fundamentally honest
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses
Last
in Draft L
In Franti 'Priai
Breaks Neutrality
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7
American Girls in Battle of Britain
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The expanding war department
now occupies no less than 11 build
ings, or parts of them, in Washing
ton, and a new big building is go
ing up.
• •
Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones
is planning to reorganize the Busi
ness Advisory council he inherited
from Harry Hopkins and make it a
more forthright outfit. Jesse plans
to add a number of small business
men to the group. There is none
on it now.
I am glad to recall that before our
rift In opinion, Mr. Roosevelt was
almost as dear to me as a chum,
confidant and companion as any
man I have known. So is Mr. Will
kie and while I believe the election
would be far better, for the coun
try, to have gone the other way, I
sent the President this telegram:
"Dear Boss. I have fought you,
but the American people thought
otherwise. We must all now get to
gether. I am still a soldier and
you are my commander-in-chief.”
Plowboy Champ
'h
These five girls are members of the personnel of the first two units of
the American hospital now operating “somewhere in southern England.”
The hospital is sponsored by the Allied Relief fund. There are 17 Ameri
cans on the staff, 12 ot whom are doctors, surgeons and technicians. The
British caption did not give the names of these girls.
Fred Timber«, 33, of Hlouffvllle,
Ont., who won the first national
plowing match recently held at Dav
enport, Iowa, a prelude to the 17th
annual corn-husking championship.
ANTIQUE hooked rug rugs hove
** n special charm because their
designs show su much individu
ality. The women who made them,
marked out their own designs on
burlup, plunned their own color
schemes and dyed the rugs. To
draw u floral design, first make a
circle and then u spiral line in
side which becomes a rose. Two
ovals with a triangle nt the base
become morning glories. Reul
leaves from plants und trees be
come tracing patterns for leaf de
signs. An oval cut from paper
mukes a puttern for n center me
dallion.
When making your own hook rug
designs, always leave a hem al
lowance nt least two inches wide
to be turned under after the rug is
hooked, and be sure to overcast
the edge of the burlap ns soon ns
it is cut.
Center guide lines
through the length and the width
of the burlap will be helpful in
balancing your design. The flow
ers end leuves may be cut out of
paper pinned on the burlap, this
way nnd that. When you get an
arrangement that pleases, truce it
to make your pattern.
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NOTE: Mr». Spear»* SEWING nook t.
givra more rug hooking designs and fur
ther suggestion* alx,ut how to draw your
own flower dralgns Alvo directions for ■
hook rug In the old fashioned »hell design.
No S contain» descriptions of the other
number* in Uia »arle* To get your copy,
address:
HHl RUTH WYETH SPRAUS
Drawer 1«
Bedford Hill*
New York
Enclose 10 cent« tor Book t.
Name
Address
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from common colds
That Hang On
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble io help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
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derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
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