SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Wars Are Not Won With Words!
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Oregon’s Women Mobilize!
Here in Oregon, Monday will find the women regis
tering along with their menfolk in order that their
skills and ability may also be added to the nation’s war
efforts. The Oregon Board for Mobilization of Women
is taking this survey so that any labor shortages aris
ing as the men are drawn into the military service or
heavy defense occupations may be quickly filled.
Women have always had an important role in war
—keeping the home fires burning, caring for the sick
and wounded, driving ambulances—but today’s all-out
war is increasing many times the demands upon them.
More than ever before, military successes at the front
are directly dependent upon the production front at
home in both industry and agriculture. As has already
been shown in England, it is on the production front
that the women will make their greatest contribution
in the current war effort. In order to provide the food
and war materials demanded, all of the nation’s re
sources must be coordinated in one giant producing
unit whose functioning must not be disrupted by labor
shortages in any part.
Thus the purpose of this survey is to create a re
serve labor pool from which workers may be drawn to
fill any gap that occurs on the production front. As
Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, director of the state mobiliza
tion board, has emphasized, this registration makes
possible the efficient mobilization of womanpower
without which “...the democracies’ struggle to perpetu
ate human freedom in the world would have little
prospect of success.”
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The Miner endorses conservation of commodities
and expects to do its share in all possible ways, but
what seems so utterly one-sided is the fact that chil
dren spend their dimes for defense stamps, track end
less miles over pavements pulling little red wagons
loaded with scrap paper while high salaried office
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FARM SALESMANSHIP •
A salesman 1s often described
as a man whose job is to bring to
gether a need and the thing which
best tills that need.
The need may be a natural and
basic one. such
as the need for
food and shelter
and clothing Or
it may be a
“create d” or
built-up need, of
which a com
mon example Ls
the automobile.
For a very long
time the world
got along pret
ty well without motor cars—they
hadn't been Invented Now we
have come to depend upon them to
such an extent that they are a pos
itive necessity to our way of living
The modern farmer should be
both a production executive and a
salesman
The good production man la like
ly to concentrate on making prod
ucts for which there is a great and
continuing demand — things for
which a need exists that he can till
to his own profit That kind of
operation keeps the salesmen busy
and keeps the plant running.
A good many farmers have fol
lowed the practice of growing cer
tain crops because theij fathers
This war will not be won with words. It will not be
won with talk about sacrifice and privation. Those
things the American people will take as a matter of
course. This war will be won with work. It will be won
by utilizing the potentially limitless American produc
tion machine to the absolute limit.
A senate committee, under the chairmanship of
Senator Truman, has made its report on the defense
effort up to the middle of January. It cites example
after example of waste, inefficiency, failure and self
interest. Some high government officials proved them-,
selves astoundingly incompetent. Some business men
were reluctant to take steps that all-out war demands.
Many labor leaders put their own ambitions and inter
ests above the needs of a nation in peril. The people
were apathetic. Too few of us seemed to realize that it
is one thing to appropriate tens of billions for defense
and war—and a very different and infinitely more dif
ficult thing to turn those billions into the instruments
of w’ar.
grew the same crops,"or' becauMd
We must pursue a different path in the future. The those crops were regarded as »spe
suited to the soil or the cli
appointment of a one-man defense head and the aboli cially
mate. They didn't plan for . the
tion of the bungling, indecisive 0PM are important market—they expected the market
to be there when the crops were
steps in the right direction. Now there is only one job harvested.
for all of us. from the President down to the lowliest
Perhaps that 1s one of the basic
worker in the smallest defense plant. That job is to reasons why we today have sur^
pluses of some farm products—
produce—to produce as no nation ever produced be shortages in others.
The wiser fanners today are get-'
fore, to work as no people ever worked before.
ting to be both better production
Not only must we all work as never before, but all men and better salesmen. They are
thought of personal gain must be put aside. There is keeping up to date — studying
requirements and mar-,
entirely too much selfishness for a harmonious func changing
kets—and planning their crops ac-‘
tioning of the present production setup—industries are cordingly.
Sometimes changes take place
charged with making excess profits from their war slowly,
sometimes almost over
contracts—labor uses this as an excuse for unreason night.
Suppose, for example, that a big
able wage demands and in turn the farm bloc cites the
army camp was built within a few
high wages of labor as the reason for demanding miles of a farm that had always
been a wheat producer. The army
higher and higher ceilings on their products.
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Friday, Feb. 13, 1942
camp uses lota of flour, but ls cer
tainly not a market for raw wheat.
It does offer an almost Inexhausti
ble market for fresh vegetables.
Wouldn't the owner of that farm
he wise to devote some of his wheat
acres to raising such vegetables as
his soil and weather conditions
would permit? Surely he would
make more profit
He would be combining to his
own advantage the twin responsi
bilities of production man and
salesman—the production man who
knows what he can grow most
profitably, and the salesman who
knows how to find the moot favor
able market for his goods.
And he would be going a step
farther as a good salesman If he
made sure that his vegetables were
carefully graded, and packed and
shipped in such a way as to insure
delivery in fresh condition.
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Is that a new conception of farm
operation ? Certainly it is a grow
ing one.
HILT NEWS
• Mrs. Enzle Wright was enter
tained Friday afternoon with a
surprise birthday party at her
home. Those who attended were
Mesdames Franx Graves, Elmer
Jackson, O. Be mh else I, Frank
Bernheisel, Arthur Pedersen. John
De Witt, T. Quamme and Mae De
Jamett, all of Hilt, and Mrs Edith
Mathison of Hollywood. The after
noon was spent knitting and vis
iting Mrs. Wright received many
lovely gifts. Refreshments were
served
• Mrs. Edith Mathison of Holly
wood who spent several days here
visiting her sisters, left Friday for
Salem, Ore., to visit her mother
before returning home.
• The Women's Society of Chris
tian Service met Thursday after
noon at the club house with Mrs.
Elmer Jackson,
president,
in
charge of the meeting. Devotlon-
als were conducted by Mrs. Cora
Mitchell. Others present were
Mesdames
Theodore
Anderson,
Carrie Bernheisel, W. A. Dutro,
Frank Ward, Richard Williams,
Donald Rosecrans, Donovan Ward,
Gus Goldenpenny, Emma Ohlund
ana Earl Wall. Refreshments were
served following the business
meeting by the hostesses, Mrs.
Dutro and Mrs. Williams.
• Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Walker
were called to Ashland Wednesday
by the severe illness of Mrs. Mag
gie Brower. Mrs. Brower suffered
a stroke at that time. According
to last word received she was im-
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NEWS FROM
Lincoln School
lly N4 lit Mi I. PUPILN
Tlie Campfire girls of Uncoln
school had ii party after school dn
Monday night, Feb 1» They invit
<><i all of the girls of the fourth,
fifth un<l sixtii guides Some of
the girls gave talks about camp
fire They played games and sang
songs
The refreshments were
coo lade mid cookies
Tlie boys and girls of Hoorn •>
had a film strip ubout Abraham
Uncoln on Feb (I
The pupils
thought it whs very interesting
ntsiut his childhood und manhood
On Friday. Feb <4. Rooni 6 had
a music program which the chll
drvn enjoyed very much They nil
sang several songs Ismald Kerr
played four accordion solos, Lo
retta Rush und Beverly Salo play
ed a clarinet and saxophone duet.
Juanita Silver and Anna I»ulee
aybrant played n violin duet
Tlie Campfire gills of Lincoln
school invited the fourth, fifth and
I UI MS OF NAZARKNE
school invited the fourth, flth and
' t ill K< II MKT THURSDAY
sixth grade girls to come to a
The Women's Foreign Mission jmrty which they hud in Room M
War department tests have dis- J
ary Society of the Nazarene Everyone who came had u good
closed that blue illumination is not ,
church was entertained Thursday time For refreshments they hud
suitable for blackout lights on I of last week at the home of Mrs punch and cookies Tlie game they
motor vehicles and instead, red I ' J. E Merritt for an all-duy srs- played was "Quiz Mr " it was fun
illumination has been adopted as j sion While the group spent the to play The girls who belong to
the official standard, according to I , morning sewing, Mrs Bertrand F Campfire sang some of their
word received by Earl Snell, sec I Peterson read to the group from songs There were about 30 Mrls
retary of state and member of the the hook on the "Ufe of Ijving- who attended the paity. That is
counting two or three teachers
national five-man highway traffic stone.'*
advisory committee to the war
After luncheon Mrs T S. Wiley who arc overseers and who came
department.
conducted the business meeting to see what progress the girls are
War department tests revealed i and Mrs D. F Owens led the de- making
The Lincoln school had a paper
that blue illumination is more eas | votional service Mrs Owens also
ily seen from the air and is leas presented the lesson study taken drive They collected 12 tons of
helpful to ground activity than from the book, ‘The Lord's im - paper Room 6 won first prize
any other color, Snell said. After I ing "
Each child in the room received
testing all colors in the visible
one 10-cent defense stamp Ned
spectrum, it was found that deep • Pvt Georgr I-angford i» en- Starnes of Room 6 won first
red illumination is least visible n>lled at the air corps technical prize, which was a 50-cent defense
from the air and is best suited to school at Sheppard Field
stamp. Second prize, a 25-crnt de
preserving dark adaptation of the • Bob Heath of Dunsmuli visited fense stamp, was won by Iionnld
eyes.
his mother. Mrs B M Heath, Beagle Third prize, a 25-cent de
fense, wax won by Joe Bayne
1 As a result of the war depart Sat unlay
ment tests, orders have been is
sued to use red instead of blue or
any other color whenever color is
used to lower intensity of lights
for blackout conditions The de
partment also stressed the im
portance of having all light sourc
es hooded so as not to project any
light above the horizontal.
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Red Lights Ordered
For Blackout Use
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Fight on Venereal
Diseases Planned
All public health agencies in the
Pacific northwest will join forces
for an intensive drive against ven
ereal diseases, it was announced
recently in Portland by Dr. Adolph
Weinzirl, head of the division of
social hygiene education at the
University of Oregon Medical
school.
Declaring that venereal disease ■
is possiblly the greatest saboteur
of industrial effort in war or'
peace and also with exception of j
injury sustained under fire, the
principal cause of physical dis-1
ability in the armed forces, Dr. ■
Weinzirl revealed that the anti-
venereal drive would be mapped
out at a social hygiene confer
ence to be held in Portland Feb.
12.
Public health officers and med
ical officers in the armed forces !
stationed in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and British Columbia will
take part in the conference.
proving.
• Mr. and Mrs. W. Gran received
word Wednesday of the death of
Mr. Gran’s aunt, Mrs. Ira K.
Drake of Cave Junction, who pass
ed Monday at the Grants Pass
hospital after a long illness.
• Bill Walker and Kenneth Brown
drove to Klamath Falls Sunday to
attend a meeting of the Carpen
ters and Joiners union committee
I
members.
• Sam Dunaway Jr. and Gordon
Alphonse are home from college
awaiting their call to report for
duty with the air corps Both
young men have passed their ex
aminations and have been accept
ed for service.
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Blessed are they which are per
secuted for righteousness' sake:
for their’s is the kingdom of hea
ven
Matthew 5:10
heads flood the mails with “For Immediate Re
lease” matter, most of which has no value only in
certain areas. A suggested solution would be for the
government to pay regular advertising rates on the
necessary or beneficial matter and discontinue the
remaining 90 percent. Too, such a plan would give the
coming candidates a chance at our waste basket.
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