Friday, Dec. 20, 1940
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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GENERAL ^nc°ln Memorial Demolished in Air Raid
Slow to Improve
Constantinople was 1,000 years
old und had a million inhabitants
before it named its streets and
numbered its houses In 1010; Rich
mond, Va., long famed us a great
cultural center, was 101 yeurs old
und had about 200,000 residents
before it established Its first pub
lic library in 1024; und the tele
phone wus SI yeurs old ta-fore one
was installed on the desk of the
President of the United Stutes in
1029—Collier's.
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Washington, D. C.
Washington. D. C.
PARITY PAYMENTS
Farm legislation for the new con
gress is still chiefly in the "talk”
stage, but one thing can be put down
as definite: The parity payment pro
gram at best is due for a big slash.
In the new budget now being
framed, parity payments are not en
tirely eliminated, but they are cut
to the bone
Instead of the $212.-
000,000 voted last spring, the figure
under consideration is only $50.000,-
000 And even this isn't certain.
It is entirely possible, under the
policy of holding down all “normal’'
expenditures to the bone to provide
more funds for defense, that the
parity item may be eliminated en
tirely before the budget is finished.
Some congressional farm leaders
are making no secret of their desire
to supplant parity loans with a
more financially sound plan. Chief
among them is Rep. Hampton Ful
mer of South Carolina, new chair
man of the house agriculture com
mittee. who is a strong advocate of
the “income certificate plan.”
This is a modified version of the
old AAA processing tax under which
processors would pay growers the
difference between the market price
•nd parity, in certificates purchased
from the government.
VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
Secretary of Commerce Jesse
Jones wasn't exaggerating when he
predicted that this would be the
most prosperous Christmas in his
tory
E nonusts of the federal reserve
board, commerce and labor depart
ments estimate a Yuletide business
season surpassing even the peak in
1929. According to their private fig
ures, dollar sales will about equal
1929, but business volume will be
considerably heavier (1940 price lev
els are nearly 20 per cent lower).
That is. each dollar spent will buy
about one-fifth more than it did in
the last of the boom years.
This is the way the experts fore
cast the Christmas season:
Employment—Because of the vast
defense program, employment will
be greater this month’ than at any
time since 1929, with more than 37,-
000.000 (excluding temporary Christ
mas employees) on private payrolls
—an increase of 1.400.000 over De
cember. 1939
Payrolls—Manufacturing payrolls
will be 12 per cent greater than last
December That means $25,000.000
more a week will be paid in wages
to industrial workers.
Retail trade—Sales generally will
be from 8 to 10 per cent greater
than 1939. Department store sales
will be 5 per cent more than last
Christmas, but still under record-
breaking 1929. On the other hand,
mail order and variety store sales
will be the highest in history.
A very Merry Christmas, indeed.
• • •
WILLKIF. AND NEW CHAIRMAN
There is a sputtering of ire among
Republican national committeemen
when they heard that Wendell Will-
kie considers it his right to name
the successor to National Chairman
Joe Martin, who wants to quit in
order to give all his time to bossing
the bouse Republicans.
Willkie picked Martin, and now
takes the position that he also is
entitled to select Martin's successor.
But to the hard-headed, political
professionals, a candidate running
for office and a defeated candidate
are horses of entirely different col
ors. The first is a potential incum
bent who may have patronage and
favors to dispense, and therefore
commands the right to call the tune.
But a defeated standard-bearer is
a has-been, and the boys are not in
terested in faded hopes.
So Willkie's claim to continued
party leadership is meeting with
very glacial response. When he told
some of the national committeemen
that they should name the man he
wants, the boys tactfully, but point
edly, replied that the national com
mittee is an elected body and alone
has the power to fill a chairmanship
vacancy.
• • •
MARTIN’S SUCCESSOR
Martin is very eager to shed him
self of the chairmanship
The undercover maneuvering for
the strategic place already is hot.
Tom Dewey, Governor Bricker of
Ohio, Sen. Bob Taft, Senator Van
denberg and others, with 1944 in
mind, each is determined that no
one hostile to him shall get it. The
situation calls for a neutral, or
someone acceptable to a combina-
*ion of the leaders.
Martin privately is afraid that it
wen’t be possible to find either and
th it to avoid a battle-royal he will
be stuck as national chairman for
some time to come.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
William Reuther, young, red-
haired executive of the United Auto
Workers, has submitted a plan to
defense authorities whereby, by us
ing the entire auto industry as one
plant, it would be possible within
six months to produce an all-metal,
•ingle-motor pursuit plane at the
rate of 500 a day. Under Reuther's
sensational program the planes not
only would incorporate all the latest
developments of Britain’s famous
Spitfires but would cost only one-
third their present price.
REARMAMENT DAWDLING
The rearmament program
dawdling for two reasons Govern
ment is not organized for industrial
mobilization, and neither is indus
try.
This
not the fault of the war
department
This country made
two startling contributions to the art
•nd science of major modern war
in 1917 and 1918. One was the selec
tive service idea for the mobiliza
tion of man power. The other was
the War Industries board method
for mobilizing industry.
YOUR EYES TELL
how you
feel inside
Ixsok in your ml« tor See If tempore« y cunell»
petion le felling on your feve. In your eyeo.
Then try (••rflvld lee. the ««ill«l. pluaeents
thorough wey toclrenee Inlefnelly without
dreatk druA» Fowl belter. IOOK «fcl’IlM.
work heller Itc — Mr et drugalorrw.
Neither was' fished out of a hat
Both were perfected through a pain
ful period of trial and error—mis
take and correction—until, at the
end, they were working well.
GARFIELD_TEA
Almost as soon as the war was
over, the war department began a
careful study of both. Few regular
officers had been Included u. ••’her
effort, but nearly all the principal
actors were living and the records
and reports were copious.
Year after year, these experi-1
enced men were brought back to
Christ church, on Westminster road, London, which was wrecked dur
lecture class after class of officers ing a Nasi air raid. When this church was destroyed a memorial to
in the war college and army indus Abraham Lincoln. In the form of a pillar commemorating the «abolition
trial college on all these experiences of slavery in the United Stales, was destroyed with It. Christ church
—the underlying principles, the blun is one of the many huge edifices in Britain wiped out by air attacks.
ders and triumphs, the blind alleys
explored and all the stone walls
against which these pioneers had ’
butted and bloodied their heads
As a result of all these studies and
stories, the war department drew
up plans for both mobilizations for
major war—men and materials.
Year after year, these plans were
revised and carefully checked with
the veterans of the earlier effort
ffreeï
optate« oi quinine
GARFIELDN
HIADACHt P0W0IR
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1 Sor doctor if
Grnrrsl Wrygand tleflt, former
leader of Frrnch troop» in war with
Nails, in Dakar, Africa, where hr
has been sent to solidify defense
plans for this colonial outpost.
pr/ilil1
In Doing* Kight
Do the right and your ideal of it
grows und perfects itself. Do thu
wronj?. and your ideal of it breaks
up and vanishes.—Murtineau.
Air Transport Crashes in Missouri Ditch
On the principle of industrial mo
bilization. of which he had directed
the 1918 effort Bernard M. Baruch
devoted much of his time and ener
gy, patiently helping the war de
partment to perfect an adaptation
of his original plan to every chang
ing circumstance.
When this emergency arrived, the
war department was ready with
plans complete almost to the last
comma tor both selective service
and the industrial effort.
The war department's draft plan
was permitted to be put into effect
with very few changes, but, for
This picture shows the wreckage of an American Airlines transport,
some reason, its equally ^-ell con
structed and war tested plan for which overshot the runway while landing at St. Louis, and bounced into
industrial mobilization was ditched. a ditch which borders the airport. The pilot and co-pilot were slightly
The result la before our eyes. The injured. Fortunately, five other persons who were riding in the plane
draft machinery is running as well escaped injury.
as any such great effort could be
expected to run. In industrial mo
bilization we are repeating by page
and number and almost by date ev
ery single blunder of 1917 and 1918
These all had been plotted and pro
vided against in the war depart
ment plan.
It is impossible to carry on with
out confusion, waste and delay an
armament program running into bil
lions by simply flinging it to a peace-
geared industry as a bone is tossed
to a dog. It requires careful or
ganization of both demand and sup
ply. organization of the many and
sometimes conflir ting government
procurement agencies, as well as
organization of the myriad produc
ing agencies of industry That has
not been done at al) and that is what
is the matter with things.
• • •
Neville Butler, counselor of thr
British embassy, who will servo as
pro tem ambassador to the U. 8.
from Britain, until appointment of
successor to Lord Lothian.
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EXTRA MILDNESS
EXTRA COOLNESS
EXTRA FLAVOR
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WASHINGTON—THE CENTER
This City of Washington was es
tablished as our seat of govern
ment, partly on the argument that
it was a central location and partly
in a kind of trade to insure national
assumption of the debts of the states
Perhaps the Founding Fathers
Could not possibly have foreseen the
astonishing expansion of our coun
try, but now our central location in
area is somewhere tn Kansas, and
our center of population, (not yet
announced from the last cei.sus) is
probably in Indiana.
As a result, Washington is about
as inconveniently located as possi
ble for most U S. citizens to exer
cise their constitutional right to
visit the seat of the government.
Nobody would dream of suggest
ing that the capital be moved. Its
location is hallowed in our history
What with its own advance and the
decline of others due to war and
misfortune it is, by all odds, the
most beautiful city in the world, It
is advancing yearly in beauty as
well as in wealth and population
NICOTINE
Lieut. W. Wittie Jr., assistant recruiting officer for the Philadelphia
flying cadeta, is Khotyn (left) going over plans for the procurement of
applicants with Lieut. Lawrence Semans, of the U. 8. army air corps.
Lieut. Semans is advance agent in a drive to get 200 Philadelphians to
make up part of 12,000 flying cadets needed in the expansion program.
President Roosevelt waves from
the deck of cruiser Tuscaloosa at
Miami, Fla., as he starts on his
cruise to the Caribbean to inspect
new military bases. He said the
voyage was strictly for business.
23rd Recipient of Donor’s Blood
Here From Britain
No, the capital will never be
changed, but why are other cities
and all the states so complacent
about permitting so much of their
money to be drained away to be
spent in this one spot? The great
head administrative offices have to
be grouped about the Chief Execu-,
tive, but why do the hundreds of
thousands of workers?
It has always been a marvel to
pork-barrel-rollers, whose bid for re-
election is the Squeedunk post office
or the improvement of Skunk creek. J
have overlooked this possibility. In-1
stead of making a short snack of!
work for a dozen plumbers, carpen
ters and masons or a dredging crew,,
they might bring home a continuing
payroll in real money.
It is astonishing, too, that the
states and cities haven’t done some
Mrs, Leslie Watts chrcrs her mother, Mrs. Hazel Farmer, victim of
low and lofty squawking over being staphylococcus septicemia, who will be the twenty-third recipient of the
so copiously and continuously milked blood of Mrs. Rose McMullin, of Washington. D. C. Mrs. Farmer, whose
for a distant community and get home is in Oklahoma City, was brought to Chicago to await the arrival
ting so little in return.
of Mrs. McMullin, whose blood has saved the lives of 22 persons.
Sir Frederick Phillips, undersecre
tary of the British treasury, shown
on his arrival in New York. He
came to America to straighten out
dollar exchange '‘technicalities.”
than the average of the 4
other of the largest-selling
cigarettes tested—less than
any of them — according
to independent scientific
tests of the smoke itself.
SLOWER-
BURNING
CIGARETTE