Thursday, Aug. Ü, 1942
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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out of the place That's not the
where two or three sons of the family are in the ser­
kind of co-operation which is go­
ing to win the war.
vice. Needless to say, the petition was not received
But to win the war our aoldiera
with any degree of cordiality.
have to go out looking for Jap»,
anti on the home front we must
Just what do the petitioners expect to gain? Do
FRED MILTENBERGF.R
all go out looking for ways we
Published Every Thurs.
they really think they can close up the park and stop
can co-operate Why shouldn't that
at 167 East Main Street
O. G CRAWFORD
farmet gather up and lake his
ASHLAND. OREGON
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the dancing? Or are they merely sniping at the war
junk to town rather than demand
and
effort and Ashland's participation in the soldier enter­
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taining program?
TOMORROW ENTHUSIASM . . . Wolcott
matter February 15.
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RATES
It would not be necessary to give this matter con­
1935, at the poatoffice at
In Coatesville. Pa., home of the
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(In Advance)
By DON ROBINSON
Ashland, Oregon, under
sfi
laikrns Steel company, has been
ONE YEAR....... »150
sideration
were
it
not
for
the
fact
that
there
are
people
the act ef March 3,1879.
demonstrated the kind of 1U0 per
‘BS»? SIX MONTHS....... 80c
who
delight
in
attaching
their
signatures
to
petitions
cent
co-operation which is needed
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to make this crup drive really
and
there
might
possibly
be
enough
of
them
to
en­
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education
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United
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the Axis.
I've just finished traveling woiry
courage the circulators to present the paper to the through
Being the leader of the national
a lot of amull towns talk­ effort
to collect scrap Iron and
council with a demand for consideration.
■THE TRUTH WILl./“^^
SET YOU FREE”
ing to people about scrap.
steel,
Robert
Wolcott. preM-
is no doubt that practic­ dent of Lukens W. Steel,
Whatever the motive, it can not be prompted by ally There
decided to
every man, woman and child atari
anything more than a desire on the part of a chisel in thia country is now conscious town. the bull rolling In his home
the fact that scrap iron, sciap
brain to put one over on the community, because keep­ of
A aulvagc committee was form­
rubber, scrap tin, aluminum and
ing the soldiers out of Ashland will not hurt them in other scare«* materials are vitally ed many months ago and a cam­
needed. But there is still u lot of paign was conducted to collect
particular but it will hurt Ashland. Under the stress confusion
about where to turn in scrap from every home When the
of wartime conditions, when everything is more or less ■crap, whether it I m patriotic to cum)»uign was over, the results
collect money for It, whether some showed a collection average of
topsy-turvy, it matters little whether we like the way junk
nun Is getting rich on selling two pounds ¡air person.
Mt Wolcott und the local com­
things are going or not (and the fact is that clean- the free
whether the soles
SHLAND long has been known up and down the minded. level-headed people are satisfied with the pro­ should be stuff,
taken off sneakers be- mitter weren't satisfied with the
results, so a second campalpn was
coast and much farther as thehomeof Lithia Park. gram as carried on here) for it is up to all of us to co­ fore turning them in. whethei iron started
to bring In the scrap
is of any use if it’s all rusty and
one of the most beautiful spots in the country. Her li­ operate freely and liberally to see that these boys have a thou. hu nd other minor questions which wit» missed on the first
naturall yai.s, when the lá i.’e The a< ¿ond campaign also
thia fountain likewise has shared notice from People
our ¿wn boys"away which
whole country is faced with a new brought I ntwo pounds of scrap
from all states of the Union and numerous foreign from foome to get in their respective camps,
Iron per capita.
undertaking of thia kind.
In another month, most ul) ol
Still dissatisfied, the committee
countries. The campus of the Southern Oregon College |
It
is
about
time
for
the
good
citizens
of
the
commu
­
the questions will probably be adv really rolled up Rs sleeves and
of Education with its well kept grounds and handsome
answered With the Presi­ went to work. It made the third
nity to rise up and put an end to this obnoxious cam­ quately
dent, his cabinet, half a dozen junk rally a galu occasion and got
buildings is a delight to the eye of the casual traveler paign
obstruction. If these dwarfed minds are un­ other government agencies as well everyone in town all steamed up
approaching our little city from the south or east and able to of grasp
leading national inductries arc about It. Tills third campaign was
the seriousness of world conditions it is as
the impression formed at the south entrance is not di­
behind the scrap campaigns, then going to show what could be done
about time some one took them in hand and taught isn't going to be much time wast­ In the first two .It was agreed,
minished as he proceeds down Siskiyou boulevard past them
ed in giving us ail a thorough the people had just been fooling
a few things.
the senior and junior high school grounds, well kept
education in scrap-ologv
For this third campaign every
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We'll have plenty of opportunity home and every farm was canvas-
homes, business properties, and so on dow’n through
to learn what to do with whal sed Tli> people had their scrap
the heart of town and on out to the north. All along STREAMS—NOT SPRAYS
scrap if we aie willing to read anti »»•adv and got It to the proper
spots. When the count was taken
the line of direct travel through the city the impres­ F THERE is one thing people of this country have listen.
VOLUNTEERS
.... help it was found that the tonnage this
sion is favorable and not infrequently travelers are
thoroughly learned about their civilian duties, it is in a country town I talked to a ■IO»,- uvciaged 34 pounds per pi
farmer who admitted that he pro­ son. or 140 pound» per family
heard to remark that if they decide to leave their this:
bably had four or five hundred almost nine times as much as the
present locations they certainly would like to live in
of scrap iron around his other two collections combined!
If an incendiary bomb hits a home, attack it with pounds
barns. He said he was perfectly SUCCESS .... Individual
Ashland.
a spray—not a stream—of water.
willing to turn it In and he didn't
No matter how much national
This is the favorable aspect—that which we want
whether he got paid a cent ; ballyhoo there Is about scrap col­
Every movie house has shown a film teaching care
for it or not. But he hadn't done lection, Its success or failure la
visitors to see. It is the impression all towns like to that lesson. Leading magazines have repeatedly em­ anything
about It and here's his going to depend upon the real
make upon visitors and Ashland, like the average Am­ phasized it. The radio has blasted forth about it on explanation:
work which is done on It In each
"Til give ’em the stuff, but no­ town and each home
erican town, has its civic improvement problems, many innumerable occasions. Defense councils throughout body
will come and get it. If they |
of which are left to shift for themselves.
to pick it all up ( This Isn’t a case of finding some
the nation have distributed pamphlets and posters to think I'm it going
to town, they're crazy ” | little knlcknack to throw into Q m
This is a region of rich soil and favorable growing every home to make sure that everyone knows that and He take
didn't say who "they" was collection ax might be done for a
conditions. Berries, fruits and vegetables grow in abun­ lesson.
in this case, but I presume he re­ church bazaar. Thia is a case of
ferred to a handful of patriotic digging out every knlcknack and
dance. Likewise weeds flourish and if left unmolested
And now*, after spreading that rule to every middle­ citizens
in town who were strug­ every ounce of all the scrap you
soon stifle the growth of flower and food crops as well sex, village and farm, the Office of Civilian Defense gling, against heavy odds, to make can possibly lay your hands on
doing something to get it into
as marring the beauty of the landscape. They have nas suddenly revised itself and ordered: Use a stream, a tion. local salvage committee func­ , and
the hands of a junkman even if no
marked ability for adapting themselves to vacant lots, j lot a spray.
His reaction is a natural one effort at all is made by volunteer
There
plenty of us who are workers to collect it from you
alleyways, curbings and any untended plot, even ap­
Under the circumstances, all we can do is hope that willing are
W’e should think of It in this
to give away the old stuff
propriating streets when not curbed by constant hoe­ the OCD is right this time, blindly make a mental re­ we don't want anyway. But that's way:
Every pound of iron you col­
very much of a sacrifice. We'd lect may stop a Jap. a German or
ing or burning.
vision in the lesson we have learned so well, and, if not
be gla dto give away the junk an Italian Every ounce you leave
It is disheartening to the civic-minded citizen who incendiary bombs do come, trust that a stream of wa­ even
in th.- fields may coat the
if there wasn’t a war on If lying
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delights in a well-kept lawn, tastily appointed grounds ter will save more lives and more property that the someone would come and clear It life of an American »»Idler.
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and buildings to have a neighbor whose main interest much-tooted spray would have done.
ond front attempt might be more disastrous than no
in a home seems to b a place to sleep and eat. Were it
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not for his pride, and his investment, he might be THAT SECOND FRONT
second front at all.
Moat of ua have no way of knowing how well we
tempted to give up the fight against the neighbor’s
HE
CRY
for
a
second
front
sides.
is
heard
on
all
sides,
weeds which constantly scatter their noxious seeds
are equipped for a second front effort.
The rocking chair brigade, the pullman i car phi-
phi­
over his grounds. Being a good citizen, he keeps up the
Let us hope that the forces of the United Nations
fight, hoping against hope that some day the city will losophers, and the street-corner orators are getting have reached a stage where a successful second front
take a hand and at least clean up its vacant lot on one louder and louder in their demands for it, both in this
can be opened. But let ua leave the decision in the
side of him and thus set an example of civic pride be­ country and England.
It
is
obvious
that
a
second
front
would
ease
the
hands
of the men w’ho know the facts.
fore his careless neighbor on the other side of him.
Russian
situation.
But
it
would
be
a
calamity
if
we
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Yes, the Ashland that the casual traveler sees may
(¡rant a favor and It la easily
be termed the city’s Queen Anne front. But there also opened a second front before we are fairly certain The largest open granite quar- forgotten;
deny it and It la always
!
that
our
invasion
would
be
victorious.
Defeat,
in
a
sec-
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is a Mary Ann back that is of as much if not more
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BIBLE SCHOOL
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importance as the front. If we have a planning commis­ V ACATION
Daily vacation Bible school will' |
sion there is work to be done. A program should be de­ I start
Monday, August 10, at the i
veloped for eliminating the unsightly spots, some of First Church of Christ located at
and B streets. Mrs. William
which are so close to Main street that it’s a wonder Second
Siefke of Eugene has been secured
they haven’t been discovered ere this.
to assist the teachers and workers
the local church.
There are many newcomers in our midst and many i of The
school will be composed of
more will come. It is up to Ashland to make a favorable four departments, beginners, pri­
junior and intermediate.
impression on these peeople, some of whom might de­ mary,
The beginners will be supervised
cide to reside here permanently when peace comes and by Ida Belle Davis, the primary
by Frieda Fuller, the junior by
they have to start life anew. If there is no planning Mrs.
Earl Rogers and the interme­
commission, some such group should be appointed with diate by Esther Davis. Each de­
will meet every morning
the object of spurring the human element to keeping partment
from 9 to 11:30 from Monday to
pace with the natural surroundings.
Friday. The school will continue
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WHAT NEXT?
RUMOR has been persisting for several days that
a petition is being circulated for presentation to
the city council asking that Lithia park be closed on
Sundays and that a ban be placed on the Junior Hos­
tess-soldier dancing parties on Sunday evenings. So
far, the petition, if there is one, has been kept well un­
der cover, although in one instance the alleged circu­
lators made the mistake of presenting it in a home
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DIAL 4541
DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER
Litwiller Funeral Home
We Never Close—Phone 4541
for two weeks. All children are
welcome to attend.
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QUESTIONS
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1. Name the first land discov­
ered by Columbus.
2. What is the Continental Di­
vide?
3. What ancient civilization ex­
ists in Peru?
4. In what period was Portugal
a great power?
5. What city state was estab­
lished by the Treaty of Versailles ?
6. For what arts is the city of
Damascus famous ?
7. Who was styled "Lord Pro­
tector ?
8. What Canadian
Province
leads in the fur-bearing animal
industry?
9. Why were the pyramids
built?
10. What is the chief seaport of
Greece ?
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you to choose between taking the best of care of what you have
or doing without.
If your electric equipment shows signs of weakness, have it re­
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