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Cost Of Total War!
Friday, Jan. 9, 1912
No one can visualize a hundred million dollars
Such a sum of money does not exist in cash. Yet that
is what we are to spend in the next two years on a
gigantic Victory Program!
The Saturday evening Post recently told what this
will mean. The most money ever raised in a single year
by the government, through both taxation and borrow
ing, was $17,000,000,000. That is but one-third of the
amount that must be raised in each of the next two
years. And no one knows what new demands the future
will bring.
That does not mean the job cannot be done. It can
be done. But, to quote the Post, “Let us not be deceiv
ed. It will hurt. We cannot give one-half of our total
income to it and keep our present standards of living.
Taxes will have to be increased until the beet is white,
and borrowing may have to be carried to the point of
compulsory lending, as in Great Britain; but when the
Perhaps some of these folks are
money that can be raised by these means is not enough
the same kind of thinkers who
—and it will not be enough—then it will be necessary
said, a generation ago, "those new
fangled automobiles will never re
for the government to command labor and materials
place horses."
by further means, and the test of further means will
Horses are by no means free
power on the farm It cannot be
not be whether they are sound according to the rules
said that they cost the farmer
of money, but only whether they are effective.”
nothing to begin with, and then re
place themselves. They are slow
We are in a total war now, and everything we have
I They get tired, and they get old
must be given to winning a total victory’. The job of the: «^S^^ ROGER /M. KYES^
They cannot be renewed by rcplac.
American people is to think straight—to understand Dirador, Nalioaal Farm Youth Foundation ing a low-cost part. They eat
they work or not. It takes
what must happen. And the job of the American gov-1 ANIMAL POWER ON THE FARM 4 whether
to 5 acres of land to raise the
ernment must be to establish a war economy that will 1 When a few farmers experiment food for a single horse, and some
body has to spend time raising
prune non-defense spending to the very limit and will with a new method or machine, horse
feed. Somebody has to spend
they sometimes find it impractical
do away completely with pork barrels and logrolling i —one of those things that are so money for seed to raise that feed,
and for shoes and harness and for
and all the other costly techniques of politics. Not even
often tried and occasional veterinary service.
discarded.
a start has yet been made in that direction. Not one
This writer has just seen and
But wheu a read a book, recently published,
solitary tax nickel should be spent now for any non
large nunibas of on the subject of animal power on
farmers, over a the farm. It is a much bigger and
defense activity that can be eliminated or deferred. We
relatively short
more complicated book than any
must accept unprecedented taxation—and at the same
period of years,
tractor operating and service man
adopt a new
time we must know that the tax money is spent for
ual that we have ever seen Any
machine or
farmer who followed all of the in
purposes which are vitally necessary. Only if that is
method, that is
structions given in that book would
pretty
good
evi
done can we win the war and avoid the bankruptcy
soon find that he was devoting a
dence that it is
Kyes
that always comes to the profligate.
right. For farm- very substantial part of his time
J ers are in the main practical peo? merely taking care of his work
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They want to get their work animals —much more time than he
Ashland is indeed fortunate in that its foreign ele pie.
done in the best, quickest and would have to spend taking care of
a tractor that would do more work
ment is conspicuously small and that those of foreign cheapest way.
That explains largely why the than half a dozen horses, and do it
birth are showing a desire to be recognized as real horse
in United States a lot more quickly and efficiently
American citizens. At least there has been no out is only population
Many farmers have operated
half of what it was a
with animal power
ward show of hostility and it is the common belief that few years ago, while during the successfully
same period the tractor population Many will continue to do so But
this city will be free of any such disturbances through has more than tripled.
after all it is a primitive method,
adopted when it was the best im
out the duration of the war. Thus there is little or no Such a trend as that cannot be provement
we had over human
explained by salesmanship or by I
cause for pleading with our citizens to refrain from promotion.
The idea of mechanical ' muscles. Machines are a similar I
overt acts which might be embarrassing not only to - power to advantages
replace animal power had I improvement over the muscles of
for the farmer, | ' the animal. Their use will continue
local authorities but to those in authority in prosecut I obvious
right from its very first day, and ; to increase, because they produce
ing the war. The government has an organization for those advantages have become more, at less cost in time and ef
more and more apparent every fort. That is progress.
taking care of saboteurs and other unfriendly citizens year.
and the most any individual or group of people should This progress toward efficiency
now been made without Sanitary Cap Rule
undertake to do is to inform the government of the has
many fences to jump. Those who
presence of such characters. If this spirit is maintained for many reasons are prejudiced Not To Be Enforced
against tractor power, and those
there will be fewer wounds to heal when peace comes. who
The sanitary milk bottle cap
breed and sell horses, have which was scheduled to go Into
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been very aggressive in putting use Jan. 1 at all grade A dairies '
We wonder if the aryans—both white and yellow— I forth
their arguments in favor of
inspected by the state department |
think President Roosevelt is just bluffing. We’ll bet animals. And some of those argu of
agriculture will not be manda- i
ments are effective, even though tory. The department has advised '
they wish they hadn’t been so eager to call names be they do not lead to the most effi dairymen that the sanitary cap
fore Uncle Sam got all “het” up and started the ma cient farming methods.
provision will not be enforced un
chinery of war rolling in earnest. The sting of Ameri • Dr. Bertha Sawyer spent the til further notice. All other pro-,
visions of the grade A regulations
can planes and tanks already felt in the European and holidays in Klamath Fails with will
be enforced.
her sister, Mrs. Alice Goeller.
African campaigns already has warned Mr. Hitler of • Miss Geneva Cullop went to The total war and possible 1
of machinery and paper
what is to come when those machines arrive by thou Medford Friday evening where she shortage
are causes for the action.
now has employment.
sands rather than scores. It was a sorry day for Adolf
The department advised dairy-
| men that those who have secured
when he set out to conquer the world. This war should j
their sanitary caps and bottling
not and it will not stop until all the forces of aggres- . DON'T TAKE THIS I equipment
may proceed to use
sion are wiped off the earth.
them without being penalized in
LYING DOWN
any way for their use.
LEGAL NOTICES
Moore Hamilton, editor of the
Medford New«,
has been Com
thè County Court of tl><< State
missioned first lieutenant in the
of Oregon for tiie County of
newly-organized
Oregon
state
Jackson
guard at Medford and will com
mand headquarters company of 111 thè Mattel' of thè Estate of
Al Hopkins, I lei elised
the 1st regiment, Major Carl Y
The undvrslgned having brrn
Tengwald announced Monday Mu
jor TengwnId is in command of appolnteil by thè above entltled
court of thè State of Oregon for
the 1st imttalion of the guard
Lieutenant Hamilton is a grad 1 thè county aforcsaid, Adininlstin
uate of Oregon State college tor ot thè Estate of Al Hopkins,
where he took R. O T C train ' deceased, and having qiiallflr<l,
ing.
His headquarters company I i notici' Is hereby glven to thè eie
has
supervision
over
mianttv i ditors of, and all persona having
companies recently organized in I daini« lignina! «alti deceased. to
Medford,
Klamath
Fella
and prcMcnt thein, verifleil as rec|iiirc<l
l>y law, wlthln nix montila after
Marshfield
thè flint publlcatloii of thls notice
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to «aid Adminlstrator al thè office
« Mi and Nirs I’atil Mars ami son
of Briggs A Biìggs. hls attorneys
of Eugene visited several days
Pioneer Building, Anhiand. Ori
last week with Mr and Mis' J D
glili
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ELMER HOPKINS
• Mr and Mrs Delwin Heath and
sons of L am Gatos. Calif visited Administrator of ihr Estate of Al
Hopkins, Deceased
several days with Mr. and Mrs ,
II. L. De Ärmond.
Dated Jununry l>. 1042
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REMEMBER WHEN
—the family circle waa an important part of the social
order, and “Home Sweet Home” hung in a frame over the
fireplace? There was always a Bible on the parlor table,
and “Gone With the Wind” referred to a
cyclone. Remember?
DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER
Litwiller Funeral Home
We Never Close—Phone 4541
When men are fighting and
dying, you must do your part.
Be sure you enlist your DOL
LARS for DEFENSE. Back our
armed iorces—and protect your
own life—with every single dol
lar and dime you can.
America must have a steady
flow of money pouring in every
day to help beat back our ene
mies.
Put Dimes into Defense
8tamps. And put Dollars into
Bonds. Buy now. Buy every
pay day. Buy as often as you
can.
Don’t take this lying down.
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