4 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER I Medford Editor Heads State Guard Company Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Friday at T«7 East Mais Street ASHLAND. «RECON CHAS. M GIFFEN WILLIAM SAVIN PubUahers ¥ ★ Entered as second-class matter February 1ft. 183$, at the postoiflce at AahlauU. Oregon, under the act of March 3,187» SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR 31 50 SIX MONTHS......... 80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) ★ TELEPHONE 8561 “THE TRUTH WILL J = DEFENCE SET YOU FREE” -=l 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 ★ ★ ★ 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 * W 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 qiiallflry law, wlthln nix montila after Marshfield thè flint publlcatloii of thls notice • 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 M I 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 I ---------------- Dev. and Printed 6 or 8 Ex. Rolla Southern Oregon Credit Bureau Reporting Office General Office Ashland Medford Phone 3751 240 Eust Main, Ashland Medford Center Hiilldlng Phone 2201 YOUR CREDIT RECORD —You make it, We Record it! A 5c Extra for Panchromatic I Double Size 25c | ALL FINE GRAIN DEVELOPING. GUARANTEED WORK Reprints 2c ea. Deckle edge or plain, double size, Sc 35 mm. 36 ex. Dev. A Printed, 3x4 prints, 95c roll. Send this ad with your order and we will send a miniature frame free. Mail films to ECONOMY PHOTO FINISHERS BOX 1576, 8TA. D, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. J 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. J