SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Friday, Octobor 31, 1941
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Washington. D. C.
THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE
PURKEY
FARMER PRICE VICTORY
Louis J. Taber, National Grange
president, and other farm leaders
didn’t come away empty -hand«?d
from their conference with the Pres
ident on price control.
While he would not agree to their
proposal that wages be included in
the price control bill drafted by
Price Administrator Leon Hender
son. Roosevelt did make one impor
tant concession. He said he would
have no objection to a "parity aver
ages formula" being put in the bill
to limit the dumping of government-
owned wheat and cotton when the
prices of these commodities threaten
to soar out of bounds.
Under this formula, to insure
farmers an average parity price for
the full crop year, restrictions, would
be placed on the amount of wheat
and cotton that could be sold. Also,
the dumping could not begin until
prices reach certain above-parity
levels, to be worked out by Hender-
son and the department of agricul-
ture
Taber and his colleagues had to
do some fast talking to sell the Presi
dent on this plan. At first he seemed
in no mood to accept any changes
in the bill and told his callers that
if they had come to debate the ques
tion of controlling farm prices they
were wasting their time.
"We have simply got to head off
inflationary trends." the President
declared grimly, "or face the worst
depression the country has ever
known after this emergency is over."
The farm leaders finally won him
over to their plan with the assurance
that they would not oppose Hender
son’s system of selective price con
trols, providing the parity gains won
at this session were not lost.
Taber pointed out that though the
prices of wheat and cotton are now
only slightly below parity, and live
stock above it farmers get only 43
per cent of the consumer’s dollar
spent for farm products, as against
60 per cent in 1917, when defense
production was geared to the peak
it has reached today.
NEW LABOR HEADACHE
Strikes are still a serious problem,
but the big labor headache currently
harry ing defense chiefs is the com
plex and mounting difficulty of em
ployment dislocations.
Almost every day brings new re
ports of workers let out due to lack
of materials, forced curtailment of
production or other defense causes.
Official estimates of such dismissals
put the number at between one and
two million.
And the end is not in sight. Some
experts anticipate that in the auto
industry alone 200.000 workers will
lose their jobs.
Aware of the serious economic
consequences of such dislocations,
OPM heads are making strenuous
efforts to overcome them, So far
only partial answers have been
found.
Originally, OPM tried to handle
such dismissals by local absorption.
This worked all right in towns with
industries engaged in defense work.
They could use the displaced hands
and gladly took them on. But in
communities where this condition
did not exist, other solutions had to
be found.
Various methods have been used.
In some instances defense orders
have been granted to reopen shut
down plants. In other cases, where
conversion of a plant wasn’t pos
sible, an entire new defense plant
has been erected in town. In still
other instances, workers have been
given '’retraining" instruction and
moved to places where labor was
needed.
Defense chiefs count on Floyd Od-
lum's reorganized subcontracting
division to take up most of the slack
on defense dislocations.
Odium originally estimated It
would take two months to set up
administrative machinery, but OPM
chiefs are urging him to turn his
attention to getting subcontracts now
and rounding out his organization as
he goes along.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The American Association for Eco
nomic Freedom has reprinted an ad
dress made more than 10 years ago
by Federal Judge Robert N. Wilkin
of Cleveland on "A New Social Or
der" in which he advocated a union
of the English-speaking countries to
resist the totalitarian aggressors.
Heavyweight champ Joe Louis,
soon to be drafted, is tackling what
he describes as "the biggest fight of
my career." He has sent a circular
letter to every member of congress
asking them for help to raise a fund
for a movement to improve the eco
nomic condition of Negroes.
It isn’t advertised, but the army
now has a regular military air serv
ice across both the North and South
Atlantic, operating on schedule, just
as punctually as any commercial
airway in the U.S.A.
Good news for the troops eaten by
chiggers in the Louisiana maneu
vers: Denton Crowl of Toledo had
just discovered a chemical which
will make them as scarce as Amer
ican heavy bombers.
Jesse Jones is angling to get John
Hertz, original king of the Yellow
Taxis in Chicago, appointed to the
Maritime commission.
Nrw Englund Hooked Rug
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Dear Ma —
I got your clipping about 200.000
jeeps two be released by Christmas
and you are no more anxious
about me being one of them than
I are.
I wish I had helped out
more at home so I could claim
somebody was dependent on me
without laughing
I have checked
and double checked to see if I
couldn't dig up some evidence of
what a help I was to you and pop
but I did not have no luck to
speak of
All I could get down on paper
was these three cases:
1. —Once about three years ago
when pop was sick ten days 1 took
care of the furnace and chipped tn
about $4 to help pay family expenses.
tThis is subject to error. It may-
have been $4 50. but I kept no pa
pers. )
2. —In 1938 or 1939 I forget witch
when he was on a auto trip we hud a
blowout and I did
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Wrecked engine of a Philadelphia-New York local train is shown
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New York-Washington flyer, outside Pennsylvania station. Rahway, N. J.
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M 3. —Last year Twenty-five persons were Injured in the crash, most of them passengers
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1 the rad:.> went on on this local train.
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you antj
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ed to hear some favorite program
and I fixed it for you. Also I went to
the delicatessen store for you a cou
ple of times when dad was two
tired.
• • •
I do not think this is enuff to get
the army to send me home as a
dependency case, so if you can think
of anything let me know and you
better make out a atTedavits and
have it sworn by a notarery public
as the officers is very suspicious.
Commission New Sentinel for I licit* Sam
The paper says some units will
lose 30 per cent of their men through
releases but if all the boys in my
unit who are trying to get out are
successful mine will lose at least 99
per cent Otto Bixby's folks have
dug up evidence that he is over 28
years old and that they put him
down as 26 because they lived two
years in Brooklyn witch don't count
• • •
Otto also says his family is suf
fering without him as his mother
can't
carry up
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three flights lik<
she used to. He
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ter has arthuritus ,
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and can't mow J
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the lawn, wash
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the flivver and do «------ ■ A
all the washing and ironing. Al
together his being away from home
leaves the family in a awful fix he
says.
• • •
Another boy in my outfit says he
is needed right away at home as
two new saloons have opened up
near his house and his old man is
less a help than ever. I am still
trying to get out on the ground J
am a hardship case and two new
things happened by way of evidence
this week. First I had two front
teeth pulled the same day that we
had steak for dinner. If that ain’t
a hardship I don't know what is
Next I am innoculated so many
times that to look at me you would
think woodpeckers had been work
ing all over me. And Nellie Peter
sen ain't wrote me in over a hole
week all of witch makes me feel
more like a hardship case than ever
• • •
Of coarse if was married I could
get out of the army in the Christ
mas releases and I am now con
vinced that early marriage is a good
thing for every boy Not that I wood
be such a heel as to get married to
dodge the draft, but I just wish 1
had got married to a nice girl four
or five years ago when I had some
fine chances. If I had my life to live
over again I wood get married by
the time I was 18 and no later.
• • •
If I was anywhere near 28 I might
stand a show of getting out, but un
less you made a mistake in the
berth certificates there is no hope
that way. Could you check up all
over again and be sure. I always
used to hate to think of being as
old as 28 or 30 but efter a year in
a army no age seems so swell, in
fact with the world as cockeyed like
it is today I would have no com
plaint if I was 50.
Well this will have to be all for
now and do not worry as I am beef
ing just because jt feels good and
life in a army is not so bad when
you get used to it.
Love,
Oscar.
PS.—I hear Mildred Donaldson
has moved back into our neighbor
hood. Do you know her address?
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• • •
Ceremony at the Brooklyn navy yard, as the raising of the stars and
stripes symbolized the official commissioning of the I'. S. destroyer Bris
tol, sister ship of the torpedoed U.S.8. Kearny. The commissioning ad
dresses referred to the dangers that might lie ahead. The ship is com
manded by Lieut. Com. Chester C. Wood.
Ruins of London Town
Acting with «Iciermined *pccd and
unity, the senate, by a vote of 59 to
13, passed Sit«- new J5.9».'>.000.l>00
l.ciid-la-asc bill to send a new tor
rent of planes, suns, tanks, etc., to
the nations fishtlng Germany, In
cluding Russia, Photo shows Hen.
Alva It. Adams of Colorado, chair
man of tlie subcommittee of the sen
ate appropriation* committer, writ
Ing date on bill.
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In a wonderful world tlu-re are
many queer profession’«, but rank
ing high among the strange ones
is that practiced by a Chinese
coolie living in Chungking
At night he c in be seen walking
around the dark streets with u
lighted candle measuring minx’
eight inches stuck in the top of
his skull. In return for a small
fee he will guide you to your des-
tination.
When very young his
1
purent«,
apparently, had cut the top of his
skull, inserted a cundle which
they held in position by sealing-
wax, and sent him out on to the
Gen. Gregory Zhukov, who has strert as a guide to travelers.
been placed in charge of Russia's
For many years now he has
central drtense zone, which Included done this queer job, and must
lhe Moscow area, lie succeeds Mar- surely be the only human "light
shat Timoshenko.—Soundpliolo.
house" in the world.
Loyal to School
Don't worry about what to send
the man in uncle Sum's service»
for Christmus. He's told the coun
try himself in any number of sur
veys. Cigarettes and smoking to
bacco top the list of whut he wants
first of all from the folks back
home—and first of all is Camel
Cigarettes. Actual sales records
from service men’s stores—in the
Army, Nuvy, Marine Corps, and
Coast Guard—show Camels the
largest selling brand, with Prince
Allicrt Smoking Tobucco a stand
out favorite.
Local dealers ure
featuring Camels in n handsomely
a ml I in a novel
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Chrlstrnus package of four "flat
fifties'’ « ithi-i
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cigarettes. Prince Albert is fea
tured in the pound tin and pound
glass humidor all Christmas gift
wrapped.—Adv.
Progrès«
“And has your baby learned to
talk yet?”
"Oh. yes
We’re teaching him to
keep quiet now
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As Usual
, Father — Remember,
curiosity killed the cat.
Janey—How, daddy?
my
child,
Hopeless
"Even a worm will turn.”
"What's the use? It's the same
both ends."
Five hundred students of the
Georgia university came to the cap
ital in Atlanta to protest to Governor
Talmage because their school had
been dropped from the Southern • ASK YOUR DEALER TOR THE •
university conference.
Governor OUTSTANDING BLADE VALUE
Talmage was not in town at the 1 KENT
time of the demonstration. Note stu
dents mounting bust of Talmage.
RAZOR BLADES
This photograph, just released by the British censor, shows some of
the devastated sections in lhe great business center of London after air
raid clearance work. An entire block of demolished buildings has been
completely removed, leaving nothing but vacant lots, as shown in the pic
ture. Hardly a building escaped damage.
®KENT£S
io ta/i?: BLADES
At Neutrality Hearing
Protests Seizure.
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"TAKING THE COUNTRY BY STORM"
KNOWN FROM COAST TO COAST
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ONE RESULT
Though "War Is Hell" one thing I
see:
It has taught us geography.
—Edna G. Groskin.
• • •
Due to priorities, drug stores will
have to cut by 15 to 25 per cent
many of the items they now carry,
it is predicted.
Well, that's okay
with us. We're tired of dropping into
an apothecary shop for a pill and
coming out with a roll of linoleum, a
percolator, a wrist watch and a new
oaintina for the hall bedroom.
A HOOK!’:!) mg give» your
** home such a warm, intimate
air!
And you cun hook thia
charming design ea.ily.
Use any muteriul you liuvc on
hunt! (though woolen is hint) and
us for colors the mor«’ the mer
rier!
Lovely together lire rose,
green, black, beige, orchid.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, left, Is shown talking with Rep. Sol.
Bloom, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, during the
neutrality hearing on Capitol Hill, on the arming of merchant ships. The
attack on the U. S. destroyer, Kearny, gave impetus to the hearings on
revision of the law.
II. 8. seizure of IS Douglas light
bombers bound for Peril and possi
ble use against Ecuador, was pro
tested by Col. Armando Revoredo
(above*, air attache of the Peruvian
embassy In Washington, who termed
the seizure an unfriendly act.
buys something more than
space and circulation in
the columns of this news
paper, It buys space and
circulation plus the favor
able consideration of our
readers for this newspaper
and its advertising patrons.
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