Page 2 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. • • • 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 | 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 > ■ •* 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 ■ I 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 j M .V 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 J • • • • • • Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses Last in Draft L In Franti 'Priai Breaks Neutrality ’ -Si 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. • • • 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 DON’T BE BOSSED BY YOUR LAXATIVK-RCUKVK CONSTIPATION TNIS MODERN WAY • Whan you feel gassy, headachy, logy duo to < logged up bowel*,