SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Pag« 4 Southern Oregon Miner OUR DEMOCRACY WRITTEN IN /86¿ CHAS. M. GIFFEN WILLJAM SAVIN Publishers Published Every Friday- St f67 East Main Street ASHUANB, ®RWSON ¥ ANO AS TRUE IN tfU : ★ Entered as secend-class matter February 15, 1885. at the pestoffioe at APHnuid Oregon, under tie act ef Marth 3, 117» SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR......... >150 SIX MONTHS...... MOc (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) ★ TELEPHONE 85dl SET YOU FREE" •THE TRUTH WILL/l^ Wars Are Not Won With Words! ★ ★ 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.” ★ ★ ★ 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 ana Ze a, fyUtnâ Zo matt” DIAL 4541 DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER Litwiller Funeral Home We Never Close—Phone 4541 C.M.LltwiUer ’lUtf s Ê a ÎI ixobiy or nu’Aixlij lose the I as I’, best Ro|.w of ¿ArtR.’ ROGER'M. 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. ★ 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. • 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- Abt Watch Material 4 l'iulcr governiiH-nl prlorlllr« MARCH 1ST lime your watch repaired Now ! Ramsey’s Jewelry Store «//>*» < See Crosby Texaco Service for Free Defense Stamps 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 <> 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. ------------- •------------- Red Lights Ordered For Blackout Use -4 I ( 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. ------------- •------------- 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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