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Friday, September 19, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Beautiful Glass Garden From Old Jug or Bottle Washington. D. C. , 8. BASES IN AFRICA The public doesn’t generally know it. though Nazi agents do. but the United States is very quietly and ef ficiently building up a series of stra tegic bases along the coast of Af rica to guard against a Nazi air putsch from Dakar to South Amer ica. First of these bases will be air dromes at Freetown, in the British colony of Sierra Leone, now being developed by Pan American Air ways on the airplane ferrying route to Egypt. Second will be an important air drome in Liberia, the Afro-American colony just south of Freetown. Equally important will be a subma rine base in Liberia. The Liberian airdrome is now being built in co-operation with the Firestone Rubber company. Purpose of these bases is to take the place of the U. S. fleet in the South Atlantic. Long ago, U. S. naval strategists figured they could reduce materially the number of U. S. warships around Hawaii and California, if there were enough big bombing planes on the Pacific island bases to patrol the Pacific. So now U. S. bombing planes op erating from the African coast will do the same thing for the South At lantic in order to guard against Nazi moves from Vichy • dominated Dakar. The problem of shutting off a Nazi blitz in the South Atlantic is much harder than in the Pacific, due to one factor: distances in the Atlan tic are about one-third less than those in the Pacific. BAD EGGS A member of the British air mis- aion in Washington, back after a flying trip to England, has a report on food conditions that is a com- bination of humor and hard, unpal atable fact Regarding the food shortage in England he says that eggs in most places are unobtainable. The ration is one egg per person per week. Some millions of eggs shipped from the United States were all bad. "Bacon and eggs” today is un known in England. The nearest ap proach is bacon and “egg.” and if the day you want it is not egg day, you have to be content with bacon and tomato instead. Sugar is limited to half a lump per person per meal. At Claridge's, one sardine per person per day is the most sardines anyone can ob tain. Next in scarcity at this swank London hostel is butter. At each meal, you get a vast dish in which you may be able to discern two little dabs, each smaller than a penny. Fresh fruit is nearly non-existent. There are no oranges at all. The returning Britisher also reports that the general shortage of clothing re sults in sloppy dressing. The report urges that England im mediately import thousands of small home-canning machines to be used by housewives in preserving current crops of fruits, vegetables, rabbits, and meats of all sorts. He advo cates "that the women of England be obliged to preserve food, instead of devoting themselves to the hope less hip and tummy development that results from continual knit ting.” STUDIES IN THE GAS SHORTAGE Out of luck Is Wilbur Wrenn: He thought of gas At 7:10. • • • Sad indeed Is Arthur Bott: ’Twas 8 p. m.— And he forgot! • • • Plants, Flowers Grow Rapidly Shed a tear For Minnie Wray: Her friend used all Her gas by day! Weep for John J. Applegate: The gas man said. "You're just too late! • • • Sympathize With Nell's friend Joe: He only said. "My watch was slow!” Do not laugh At Johnson (Will): He called on her With just one gill. Shown above arc two ships which figure in the five sea incidents men tioned in President Roosevelt’s “shoot first” address. Pictured at top is the American-operated 8. 8. Scssa, former Danish freighter, torpedoed and sunk off Iceland. Below: American freighter, Steel Seafarer, shown at Baltimore dock, which was sunk by an Axis bomber in the Red sea. HKAOKK IIOMK BERVH'K 111 Minns SL Man Francisco, Calif. Orders Naw to Free Western Sea of Raiders ILLITERATE DRAFTEES Enclose to cents In coin for your copy of GLASS GARDENS AND NOVELTY INDOOR GARDENS. Name................................ . ...................... The ladies' pride Is Wallace Wright: He saves his gas To drive by night. • • • Address................................. . .................. Wliv Invent Words? Oh lucky egg Is Luther Mix: The gas shack clock Had stopped at six! And wottaman Is Barnett ("Puggy”): He never sold That HORSE AND BUGGY! HINTS FOR GAS SAVINGS SLOGANS Harold Ickes has labored and come forth with a sticker, "I Am Using One Third Less Gas” as a terrific weapon in the drive to save fuel. Well, to this department it seems feeble, trite and ineffective, President Roosevelt as he delivered his momentous message to the especially when dealing with human world, following recent attacks on American shipping by Axis submarines. beings who have shaken off their The President warned Axis powers that he had issued orders to the navy real skin and donned the tough hide to shoot first if Axis war craft are sighted within American defense i of automobilists. Nobody reads the zones. He pledged protection of all shipping. stickers on a windshield, not even the fellow who pastes them on. If they are to be used, however, why not put a kick in ’em. Some thing along this line: “I Am Not a Hog, Even When in an Auto.” "I Wouldn’t Cripple Uncle Sam Just for a Few Extra Miles of Tour ing.” "I Put Patriotism Above Petro leum.” "America First. Picnicking Sec ond.” "I’m Stepping on Hitler, Not on the Accelerator.” "I'd Rather Lay Up My Car Than Lay Up My Future.” Of course in this crisis there is bound to be the fellow who takes the attitude, ”1 only regret I have but one limousine to give for my country.” F'rrguoon, i ork model, one of several girls ques tioned about shakeup of G-men in New York city. She threatened suit against the FBI for its treatment of her. Curtain Falls The idea of tipping railroad por ters ten cents per bundle or bag is now being denounced by both por ters and railroads. But nothing they can say would equal the strong lan guage being used by the traveling public. It has never believed there was an iota of fairness in paying 40 cents to have a porter carry a coat, a brief case, a hat box and a book while the fellow with the bass violin and the doghouse got off with 20 • • • The best way to And out what to send soldiers in camp is to ask the soldiers themselves. Surveys among the men with the colors show cigarettes and smoking to- bucco head the list. Actual sales ret ordfi from service .stores in the Army, Navy, Murine Corps arid Coast Guard show the largest- selling cigarette is Camel. Prine« Albert Smoking Tobacco is well- known as the "Nntional Joy Smoke.” A carton of Camels or n pound tin of Prince Albert is al ways welcome, doubly welcome around the end of the month. Local tobacco dealers are featuring these brands as ideal gifts for men in the service.—Adv. BY YOUR LAXATIVE —RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY • When you fool («My, heedachy, 1o<y duo to clogged-up bowela, do oa milliuM do-toko Feen-A Mint at bedtime. Neat morning - thorough, comfortable relief, helping you atart the* day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling like a million! Feon-A-Mint doean't diaturb your night'a reat or interfere with work the neat day. Try Feen A Mint, the rhewing gum laaatlvo, yourae/f It teatoa good, it’s handy and economical... a family supply FEEN-A-MINTioi Min’s Creation In top photo Avila Camacho, president of Mexico, delivers his first annual message to congress. He stressed the attitude of the Mexican gov- I ernment as favoring democracy, and pointed out the Mexican intention of co-operating in the defense of America. In lower photo labor union adherents to the O.T.M. stage demonstration as evidence of their support of the president's announced principles. To Whom It May Concern Ima Dodo calls her auto an Ickes- mobile because it has become just a day coach. • • • Men henp together the mistakes of their lives and create a mon ster they call Destiny. — John Mr*. Sara Delano Roosevelt, Oliver. mother of the President, who died in her home on the Hudson river, at Hyde Park, N. Y., at the age of 86. Mrs. Roosevelt, famed for her beauty in youth, was from an era of grand dames and dowager duch Cranky? Bratleaa? esses and she ruled her household Can't sleep? Tire in a regal manner. She was burled esally? Because of beside her husband, James, who dlatreas of monthly functional disturbnncea? Then try died in 1900. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. Pinkham’s Compound is famous for relieving pain of Irregular periods and cranky nervousness due to such disturbances. One of the most effec tive medicines you can buy today f-z • -, 7 for this purpose — made eipectaUff for women. WORTH TRYINOI I % Girls! Miss America *1 ' A Those Churchill photos in confer ence with Mr. Roosevelt must make a lot of advertisers wish they knew what kind of a cigar he smoked. • • • Eleven oil companies are to send billions to pump oil to the East. It sounds like a pipe dream. • • • • • • SUCCESS SECRET NO GAS TROUBLES The shortage of gasoline in the An author's life is often hard East raises no problems in the life Until he gets a book that’s barred. —Merrill Chilcote. of Hattie Caraway, though, as rank • • • ing member of the senate commerce The United States Golf association committee, she plays an important role tn the investigation of the al has rescinded its rule prohibiting golfers in regular tournaments from leged shortage. The motherly senator from Arkan ceasing play during a lightning sas is one of the few members of storm. “They may now stop tem the upper chamber who doesn’t own porarily if they think they are in danger,” it says. Boy, there’s what an automobile. Mrs. Caraway depends on street we call consideration, even if it does cars and buses to get to and from expose an unnecessarily slow back- swing. her office. Some writers go to the trouble of inventing words, which few out side their own circle can under stand. The English language is extremely rich in words, and not impoverished. In the unubridged edition of the English dictionary there are some 500,000 words, far more tliun any man cun hope to use. Shakespeare had a vocabu lary of only 15,000 words, com pared with 60,000 used by the edu cated adult today. Milton used ' 17,000 different words, and the Bible contains only 7,200 different words. DON'T BE BOSSED • • • Washington announces that bone OFFERS FARM FOR DEFENSE less beef is making a hit in the navy John H Perry, president of West It's better than beefless bones. • • • ern Newspaper Union, has offered Defense bonds and stamps are to his 2,500-acre model farm in Owen county. Kentucky, to the Royal be sold through dry goods stores, Canadian Air force as a pilot train etc. And we know a lady who is ing center. The rest of his large going to wait for them to advertise estate has been offered to the U. S. a special sale. government. “I am for national “What this country needs is unity,” defense,” said Perry, “and Uncle Sam can have my place, lock, stock declared the orator as he proceeded to insult all who disagreed with his and barrel.” personal opinions on the crisis. • • • One of the uncomfortable facts disclosed by the selective service system is that thousands of young men in this great country of educa tional opportunity are unable to pass a simple test of reading and writing. In a recent two-months period, May 15 to July 15, a total of 91,919 draftees were "excused” on account of illiteracy. Of these, 37,217 were white, and 54,702 were Negro. The southern states have the heaviest percentages of illiteracy. In Louisiana. 4.8 per cent of the whites and 23.7 of the Negroes were rejected on this score, In Georgia and Florida, the percentage was only slightly less. Other states of high illiteracy are Virginia, Missis- sippi and North Carolina. Partly to offer the benefits of edu cation, partly to increase the num ber of men fit for military service, WPA is setting up a project to teach reading and writing to the rejectees. A DELIGHTFUL mystery I Ile- ** liotrope with sweet clusters of tiny flowers, graceful palms and Ivy-striped pundanus- all growing merrily in n small-necked jug. Ad miring friends ask "How on earth did they get there?” Bottle terrariums are almost as simple to make as the more usual kind. Pour in some drainage ma terial, pebbles perhaps, and then add soil. Shake und tilt the bottle us you pour in each luyer until it lies evenly. • • • Constantine A. Ouinansky, Soviet Our 33 page booklet gives complete di ambassador to the U. H., arrives at the While House for a conference rections tor making terrariums and dlah with the President and Secretary of gardens of sll kinds Including landscaped, gardenia, orchid terrariums. Tells how Stale Cordell Hull. It is believed to grow kitchan window herb gardens. they discussed the Chief Executive's Send your order to: radio address to the world. . 1 • . A# ■ WATCH -'<! L ... * "-""T The 16-inch rifles on the No. 3 turret, aft, of the 35,000-ton U.S.S. North Carolina cut loose with a roar as they hurl shells about 26 miles to sea In the greatest broadside of history. This soundphoto was made from the stern of the nayy’s superdreadnaught during recent firing tests. The North Carolina Is under the command of Capt. Olaf M. Hustvedt. The crown of Miss America of 194 was placed on tile blonde locks of Miss California, Rosemary La Planche, at Atlantic City, N. J. The 19-year-old, hazel-eyed beauty, re sides In Los Angeles, and was a run- nerup In last year's beauty pageant. You can depend on the spe cial sales the merchants of our town announce in the columnsof this paper .They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronize the merchants who advertise. They are not afraid of their mer chandise or their prices.