Friday, March 14, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 GENERAL Ix'gionnaires Return From W ar Inspection Breaks Relations HUGH S. JOHNSON Dcrrplive Firut Sight Things urc not always what they serin; the first appearance de- I coivcs many; the Intelligence of few perceives whut has been cure- ' fully hidden in the recesses of the I mind.—Phaedrus. 4 sakiaaixs Washington, D. C. PROHIBITION LOBBY ACTIVE I Washington. D. C. TRANS-ATLANTIC MAIL Prohibition, after being in the lim­ There is considerable discussion bo for eight years, again has a po­ in Washington as to whether the gov­ tent lobby on Capitol Hill. The ernment should subsidize another Women's Christian Temperance air transport line between New York Union and other Dry organizations and Lisbon to compete with the Pan- have launched their most intensive American Clippers over exactly the campaign since the one that put same route. over the Eighteenth amendment In this argument there is tittle during the last war. criticism of the marvelous pioneer­ And they are using the same tac­ ing work of Pan-American of plan­ tics. Congress is being barraged ning and putting into execution this with appeals to "protect" soldiers trans-Atlantic service which, due to and sailors by prohibiting the sale the war, has become a main reliance of alcoholic beverages near mili­ for our traffic with Europe, both for tary reservations, Simultaneously, mail and important government of­ the heat is being put on state legis- ficials and civilians. It is the best, latures to enact "loc..l option" similar service in the world and statutes. plans for three more sailings a week, The only thing new in the drive six in all. have been made and is its slogan. This time it's "Defend financed by the company and ap- I proved by the government the Defenders." 1 X mi ' X. •w No, the argument is neither bad i A *"*** À The Dry campaign is well organ­ ' Mt , W n A ized. In the last few weeks thou- service, high rates nor lack of fun sands of letters have poured in on co-operation with the government. It / J I Some are written on is the word of evil omen in all congress W.C.T.U. stationery, but most are American legislative deliberation. form letters signed by individuals There is only one air service op­ obviously connected with Dry organ­ erating between New York and Lis­ Legion Commander Milo Waruer, right, with three other 1-cgionnalrea, izations bon. The argument is that govern- shown on their return to America after an elghl-day tour of England. • • • : ment, at much greater cost to itself They are enjoying coffee here. Warner said England can win the war FOREIGN PROPAGANDA for mail service, should subsidize with American aid. >le will report to a special meeting ot the Legion Postmaster General Frank Walk­ a much less frequent and initially during March. er said nothing in his report to con­ certainly less effic'.:.’ service in or- gress. but he has quietly taken steps ( der that there shot . be competition to plug up the inflow of foreign on this route. propaganda via first-class mail. It is the story of the railroads over Postal officials were- able to seize again. Any kind of public service, and burn 15 tons of illegal litera­ such as transportation, has some ture under the authority that per­ elements of public helplessness- mits inspection of second and third- some aspect of monopoly. In deal­ class matter without a search war­ ing with early high-handed railroad rant. First-class mail, however, is operators, our government used two immune from direct investigation, checks One was regulation. The can be examined only on a search other was to encourage and subsi­ warrant. dize competition—by parallel rail­ Ordinarily this is a laborious pro­ road lines at first, later by artificial ceeding. But thanks to the mass of waterways, airplanes and roads and matter that was seized. Walker found other special advantages for trucks a way to simplify the job. From the and busses. seized material were obtained the The final result of checking by names of hundreds of persons in all subsidized competition was the parts of the country who apparent­ mare's nest snarl and tangle of our ly are on Nazi. Fascist and Japanese inefficient and frequently bankrupt propaganda lists. railroad web. The report of the Henceforth, under an order quiet­ Coolidge National Transportation ly issued by Walker, all foreign mail committee, recommending consoli­ addressed to these individuals will dation in three or four single monop­ be subject to a search warrant exam­ olistic systems, showing that the ination. and if found illegal will be subsidized "competition” idea has destroyed. proved disastrous and insisting that This soundphoto shows his excellence, Lieut. Gen. Sir Denis J. C. K. Note—Walker wants congress to "the latter (regulation) has been require that both the senders and re- practiced long enough and sufficient­ Bernard, governor of Bermuda, saluting the honor guard of the U. S. ceivers of foreign propaganda regis­ ly extended to prove that it domi­ marines on Tucker's island during an historic ceremony In which the ter their names. A considerable nates competition or any other in­ Tucker's and Morgan's islands were transferred to the Vnitcd States portion of the literature seized ad­ fluence as the governing law of rail government for air and naval bases. vocated violent overthrow ot the road practice ..." government. The air route business is an ex- actly similar case in which repeti- Vice President Henry Wallace has tion of errors of 70 years ago in engaged a Spanish-speaking secre­ tary to help him practice his Span­ fumbling toward a solution of the railroad problems was urged, The ish. Wallace wanted someone who present air route has or will ap­ would be available at any moment­ parently soon repay the government in the office, io the restaurant, in the handball court. So he turned through postage what it expends for down a handsome feminine appli­ mail freight—which is the "subsidy" in question. cant from the Mexican embassy. If that mail load is divided up. bM>K a man instead. neither company can continue with­ • • • out great loss. ORATOR VANDENBERG • • • Genial Sen. Arthur Vandenberg.is DEFENSE LABOR PROBLEM one of the most effective orators in Both Mr. Knudsen and Mr Hill­ the senate His mind is alert, and the Janus-headed duality he has a command ot phrases that man, makes the galleries lean forward to which is managing industrial mobili­ zation. have testified that all is sweet­ hear him. When he had delivered his major ness and light on the labor front effort against the lease-lend bill, be They may think so, but hardly any­ retired to the cloak room, lit a cigar, one else in even remote touch with and leaned back in an upholstered the situation does. Unquestionably, chair. One of his colleagues con­ important sabotage is being used in organizational efforts and attempts gratulated him on the speech. With a mischievous twinkle. Van­ to increase wages. denberg replied: “I could have de­ This is notably true in some key livered just as strong a speech on steel plants in dispute where the per­ the other side.” centage of spoiled work is rising rap­ Senatorial loungers looked up, and idly and unusually. This is going Vandenberg added: "I could recite on. It is very costly and destruc­ 50 unanswerable reasons why the tive. It creates delays throughout bill should be passed." the whole production process. It is in­ conceivable that the government and • • • public can stand for that The whole TENANT FARMERS The President is not losing sight coal industry and much of the steel A view from an accompanying British war plane high above Great of domestic problems in the welter industry is threatened with strikes Britain's Rock of Gibraltar, showing another plane on patrol duty, Management in some cases is far of foreign affairs—and recently kept winging high over the harbor, wherein are several men o* war. All are his very precise undersecretary of from co-operative. The only meth­ state, Sumner Welles, waiting an od to deal with this yet made legal­ on the alert against attack by German planes from the air and German troops that might be given a "corridor" down to southern Spain by thr hour while he threshed out a farm ly available to the President, or his two-headed boy in OPM, is to com­ Fascist government. The Rock, which is one ot the most 'ormidable relief problem. fortresses in the world, is Great Britain’s effective western door to the Representatives John Tolan of mandeer the plant. That means that California and John Sparkman of government takes it over and runs Mediterranean, through which British commerce and warships flow from Alabama had called to protest it as an arsenal is run, which in day to day. against a >25.000.000 cut in farm turn means that labor in that plant rehabilitation loans, a cut made by is working for government directly. the budget bureau in the agricul­ All this is being shushed. It has ture department appropriation. been badly managed from the be­ The conference was supposed to. ginning, lt was generally under­ last 15 minutes, but Roosevelt for­ stood between President Wilson, A got all about the time, became com­ F. of L. President Samuel Gompers pletely engrossed in the "economic and industry, that the "status quo shock” to be felt by tenant farmers ante” as between labor and man­ and migrants after defense spend­ agement should remain in defense in- Thus, except as rising ing has tapered off. Meanwhile wlustries. Welles cooled his heels in an outer costs of living justified higher wages and the government's two labor office. Finally the two congressmen boards decided, neither manage­ They were beaming ment nor labor was to use the de­ emerged, about the President's promise to fense crisis to take advantage of the have the farm relief cut restored. others. At the first defiance of this policy, MERRY-GO-ROUND which happened to occur at the Able young Rep. Charley Halleck same time on the part of one labor of Indiana, who nominated Wendell union at one place and one group Willkie at Philadelphia, broke with of manufacturers at another, the him on the lend-lease bill, voting government moved decisively and promptly. It decreed the discharge against it. Minnesota’s husky Gov. Harold of the recalcitrant workers. It com­ Stassen is finding no support among mandeered the recalcitrant plant All the subsurface boiling and friends of District Attorney Tom Dewey for his presidential ambi­ rumbling is being shushed by those Mrs. Peter l.aslcy, 42-year-old farm wife and mother ot Leitchfield, That tions. They Claim Stassen had com­ whose responsibility it is. Ky., shown in the city hospital at Louisville with the quadruplets born mitted himself to Dewey before the seems wrong from every angle. To to her at Leitchfield. The babes, which were rushed to Louisville, are Philadelphia convention, and nurse a casual observer on the sidelines, (left to right): John, 5% pounds; Mildred, 4 pounds; Martine, 4 pounds, a grudge because of his flop to. it seems time to get not only and Beulah, 5 pounds. frank but also vigorous and tough. Willkie. 4cupso GARFIELD TEA You'll Ilk« th« *■> It «H4IHI )UU Inuit tu tho (•«linff of "rorln* lo t«»” fltn«M and Int»tnal cl«onlln«M. Not • mlrotlo werbor. but if t»Ht|M»r«ry cunatlpatlon la eoualnf Indlgoo- tlon, head«* h»«. Hoff l"«nvH <> At livid I am will <»rt*ilnly «h» wood«««.** •'Mt» NAAiriCI |A< J'. R| .It llfi. a tw ‘i 1 a ni |>r il , n «I . b r I «i M • liberal oploloo m quinlno I I r M IAMP1 I . 1 L GAMI H ID TI A LO . »M IO HÍADACNÍ POWOU Illi •! M At« bl««. ■ T i«c J»t _ GARFIELD (fr» Wmfftmr II hoMtfMcbwT One’s Beit Light It pays to follow one's best light; to put God and one’s coun­ try first, and ourselves after- wards —Nnmucl C. Armstrong. After reading a strongly worded British note to Bulgarian Premier Bogdan Ftloff, George W, Rendel (shown above!, British minister Io Bulgaria at Sofia, formally brokr off diplomatic relations with the Bal­ kan kingdom. Closed Bermuda Base Site Transferred to U. S. Guarding The Rock’ From Sea and Air ‘Four of a Prompt toll« I QUINTUPLETS CHEST COIOS use MUSTEROLE for Mother—Civs Your CHILO This Same Expert Carol At the fir»t sign of the Dionne Quin­ tuplets ratrhing <■•!.! thrir rhvsta and throat* are rubbod with Children’s S pr»Uurt i ado to promptly rrhove the DISTRK8* uf children's colds and rs’ultmg evughs. The Quints barn always had the best of care, so mother you may bo assured of using just about the BEST product made when you use Muslorolo. WORK than an ordinary ''■aire"— warming, soothing Mu.terole helps brrak up local congestion. Also made in Rsgutar ami Extra Strength for those preferring a stronger product. Vitamin Makra Plants Grow Tests made at the California In­ stitute of Technology show that vi­ tamin Bl gives new vigor tu plants. Political Advertising Political advertising on the two major radio chains amounted to more than >107.000 in 1938. Giacomo Profili, the consul In Detroit, Mich., was ordered closed by meni. Profili heads the sulate In Michigan. Italian vice »hour office thr fovern- Itallan con- Delay Three Wise Men According to legend, the three Wise men were Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar. Auloa in World World registration of automobiles In the world as of 1940 Is estimated at «M1MB Mrn. Blame Marlene Dietrick Marlene Dietrich Is credited with making trousers popular for women. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creotnul&lon relieves promptly be­ cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender. In­ flamed bronchial mucous meme­ branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomuldon with the un­ derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis Nothing From Nothing Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into noth- ( ing.—Persius. Forrest C. Donnell was Inaug- urated Missouri’s forticth governor after a six weeks’ delay because of contested election, He is the first Re­ publican governor to crack the MIs- sonrl capitol’s Democratic ranks since the Roosevelt landslide In 1932. This picture shows him at the in­ augural in Jefferson City, Mo., with Col. Branch Rickey, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals. Left: Governor Forrest Donnell, and (right) Col. Rickey •es She Turned Him Down! A fellow can’t get anywhere when he looks uncomfortable I And he’s bound to, when heartburn, “fullness** and acid stomach bother him. Hava ADLA Tablets handy for quick re­ lief. Get them from your druggist Memory Clings Experience teaches that a good memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.—Montaigne. TO eiV « COLDS LIQUID TABLETS SALVE NOSf uxors couch uxors BEACONS of —SAFETY— Left: Ralph Austin Bard of Chi­ cago, who was appointed assistant secretary of the navy. Right: Rob­ ert A. Lovett of New York, appoint­ ed special assistant to secretary of war for air. • Like a beacon light on the height —the advertise­ ments in newspapers direct you to newer, better and easier ways of providing the things needed or desired. It shines, this beacon of newspaper advertising—and it will be to your advantage to fol­ low it whenever you make a purchase.