Thursday, Aug. 27, 1942
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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to purchase filled ones. A lot of us have extra tubes
around the medicine chest or tucked away in a corner
waiting for the time when we might want to use them
—or just lying around for no reason at all.
It would help a lot if each of us would conduct a
tube search and turn in all we can find at the drug
store. Tin is needed badly—and most of those old tubes
contain 98 per cent tin.
Southern Oregon Miner
FRED MILTENBERGER
O G. CRAWFORD
Publishers
Publishe»! Ever)' Thura
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
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1935, at the postoffice at
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the act af March 3. 1879.
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NO RATIONING PREVIEWS
HAT’S going to bo rationed next? If you hear an
answer to that question put it down as an idle
rumor unless it comes from an official source.
Until Washington officials are ready to go ahead
with rationing another product, the chances are we
won’t hear anything about it. The fear of encouraging
hoarders has discouraged any previews of rationing
plans.
But it is true—and this is official—that the Office
of Price Administration is working on a “universa
rationing book,” with various co’ >red pages and witl
different types of coupon numbers, which will fit an;
rationing program which may be adopted. When we al
get such a book rationing can then be started on a nex
product immediately, simply by announcing, for exam
pie, that the yellow page with eight numbers on it will
apply for coffee and the green page with twelve num­
bers on it must be used for chocolate candy.
The news of the universal book indicates that many
things may soon be rationed—but until we hear about
them let’s refrain from guessing.
P. S.: It might be added that when the government
gets through printing all those millions of ration books
the first things to be rationed doubtless will be book
paper and printer’s ink..
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SET YOU FREE
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SOUTH AMERICA SOUNDS
BIGGER THAN OREGON!
T MIGHT be pertinent to ask the question “what has
I could
South America that Oregon hasn’t?” and the answei
well be —“plenty.” But when it comes to horses
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Towers of Truth
Chineie. Finnish, Tagalog, Dutch, Spanish programs in more than a
doaen tongues go out from thr towers of General Klectric stations
WGEA and WOEO. Schenectady, and KGEl. San Francisco.
1. They provide authentic war in­
2. ... have tpecial antenna*
of a special breed we can’t concede everything to the
formation for news starved peoples
"pointed" at Australia, South
southern half of the western continent.
around the globe, entertainment for
America. China. Europe—making
U.S. forces abroad. These G E short
reception there almoat a* strong as
A few weeks ago a circus appeared at Medford. One
wave stations . . .
from local stations.
of the attractions was the string of South American
Crillon horses. We are not in position to dispute the
authenticity of the Crillon horses but there are some
factors that make it appear that Oregon has be«n
handed a slight for the sake of glamorous advertising,
and this is what we want to talk about.
This slight might not have come to our attention
had not the owner’s name been mentioned in connec­
tion with the horses. That stirred memories which re­
fused to be stilled and when we saw the horses and
their owners we wondered where they got that South
3. They provided the only U.S pro­
4. Some announcers are regular
grams that reached Bataan. People
"How to Win Friends and
G E production employees, working
American stuff, for it turned out that the owner-train­
Author of
in conquered lands risk their lives to
on war work. They tell people in
Influença
People"
er was the same man who spent some time on an eas­
listen. Smuggled letters say they
their native lands that America is
bring hope of release.
determined on victory.
tern Oregon ranch training these South American
MAKE THE MOST OF TODAY
General Electric believes that its first duty as <,
Crillon horses. They then were just Ben Swaggart’s
How much are you going to get out of today? 1 know of not many
good citizen is to be a good soldier.
sentences
of
ten
words
that
are
of
more
importance
to
you.
cremoline horses, the same stock bought by Hoot Gib­
Genera/
Ehetric Company, Schontttady. N. Y.
Are you letting your days slip by without getting much out of
son and other movie celebrities who found in them not them? Are you making the most of the precious, golden hours which
never come back? John Ruskin, the English writer, used to keep f
only beauty but great stamina and exceptional riding will
a piece of marble on hu desk which had one of tht finest and moat
; C jt £N £RAJL
ease.
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significant mottoes in the world carved on it. Just one word TODAY.
Every time he looked up he saw. chiseled tn everlasting stone, a re-
Swaggart spent years in developing the strain on mindtr of how precious today is. Doctor Johnson the famous "Doctor
his ranch northeast of Heppner. When he finally Johnson" of England had a reminder written on the face of his —
so that every time he looked at his watch he would see it, "Ttie i
brought out the cremoline horse there was a ready watch
night cometh," it said. And old Doctor Johnson so lived that he made
market in the hunt clubs of the northwest, a market the most out of every fleeting moment, and when night did come he
accomplished so much that his name lives on and on.
that soon spread to California and other states. His had Marcus
one of the greatest men who ever lived, had his
ranch home at Swaggart buttes entertained numerous existence on Aurelius,
this earth 150 years before the birth of Christ. A mighty
notables who came great distances to see these excep­ warrior; he flung the boundaries of the Roman empire where they
never been before. He lived as busy a life as a person could well
tional horses. Among these horsemen was Christiansen, had
live, but he managed to toss off a book that still goes marching on.
the man who exhibited the Crillon horses in the circus. In it he said, "Don’t conduct your life as if you were going to live
to HOMMES
”
He had seen some of the stock in California and was forever.
» CHEVAUX
The important thing is to get something worth while out of today,
convinced they had exceptional merit as circus stock. no matter how busy you are. How about reading? Do you read some­
He bought several head and remained at the Swaggart thing worth while every day?
When the first Bull Moose convention was in session in Chicago,
ranch to train them, taking them south in the spring. bands
were playing beneath the window of Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
The horses seen at Medford may have been from South and people were surging through the stretts shouting, "Hooray for
We want Teddy!” Amidst all the shouting and tumult, Teddy
America—we are not disputing that point—but they Teddy.
Roosevelt sat in a rocking chair in his hotel, reading a book by Hero­
look just like the horses Ben Swaggart used to ride dotus, the Greek historian.
A few years ago a friend of mine was visiting a business man in
into Heppner, and other circumstances make us doubt­ Detroit
who asked him, “Would you like to meet Henry Ford?” That
ful about their origin.
afternoon they drove to Ford's factory and Henry Ford got In the car
them and they started for an adjoining town to attend a meeting
Only last spring Christiansen wrote Mrs. Swag­ with
of a hospital board. On the way they passed» through a stretch of
Ford leaned out of the car and said, "Listen, do you hear that, i
gart a letter telling how well the horses took to train­ woods.
Stop a minute!" The driver thought something was wrong with the
ing and that he was looking forward to exhibiting car.
Without another word, Ford got out, walked a short distance
them in Oregon. Maybe they were not the horses we into the woods and stood gazing up at a tree. Presently the other two
men joined him and they found that Henry Ford was listening to the
saw. The point is that South American Crillon horses song
of a bird—the song of a brown thrush. 'Isn't it beautiful," Ford
Many veterans of the last A. E. F. will remem­
have more glamour from an advertising standpoint exclaimed, “that's the first one I've heard this season."
We can all get something out of Today. Remember, it will never
than Eastern Oregon Cremoline horses. It can’t be come
ber how they traveled to the eastern seaboard
back.
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said that this is unfair to Oregon for we doubt if more
—Buy War Saving* Stamp*—
in coaches, and through France in tiny freight
than a handful of Oregonians would go to the trouble
cars with the legend “40 Hommes, 8 Chevaux”
to offer a protest, but if it is good advertising for the ASSISTANT SCOUT
WHAT SCRAP CAN DO
painted on the side. "Forty men, eight horses.”
circus there should be some benefit accrue to the re- i EXECUTIVE ON STAFF
In a single month, the Westing­
house Electric A Manufacturing
gion where the animals originated.
Local boy scout leaders are des­ company reclaimed enough alumi­
It’s not tharway this time. Now the U. S. rail­
D ale
C arnegie
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Not this time !
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ANY TUBES TODAY?
business of turning in old tooth paste and
T HAT
shaving cream tubes in order to get new ones has
not worked out as well as it should have.
The War Production board expected to get at least
100 tons of tin a month by this method and so far has
only averaged 60 tons.
Perhaps one thing they should have told us, and
didn’t, was that it would help the war program if we
turned in extra empty tin tubes, even if we don’t want
{jtiie+tdly, complete..
DIAL 4541
DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER
Litwiller Funeral Home
We Never Close—Phone 4541
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tined to receive additional help
front the office of the Crater Lake
area council in Medford during
the coming year due to the addi­
tion of an assistant scout execu­
tive to the staff of the organiza­
tion. Arnold Green is the new as­
sistant who is now visiting over
the council area with Kenneth
Wells, local scout executive. Green
is becoming acquainted with local
scout officials and familiarizing
himself with the work to be done
num from machine shop scraps to
build 10 Army bombers. After pure
aluminum and copper are removed
from the scrap, the remaining
metal is melted into 100-pound in­
gots. These are tested chemically
and sorted into 50 kinds of alloys
for re-use in Westinghouse factor­
ies.
roads are moving a great many more of our
fighting men in sleeping cars than in the last
war. And these men have clean bedding and
porter service.
This is one of the reasons why you may not al
ways be able to get just the Pullman accom
modations you want.
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Did you hear about the cross­
eyed teacher who couldn’t control
her pupils?
1— A sentry on duty must obey (4), (7), (5) or (11) general
orders? □
2— How many people would you say are living in India (ap­
proximately) : (1) 352 million, (2) 195 million, (3) 222 million? □
3— The WAVES get their title from the phrase, (1) world aid
via emergency stabilization*, (2) women’s assistance varying
each season, (3) women appointed for voluntary emergency
service? □
4— A chimney swift is, (1) a chimney cleaner, (2) an anti-
smoke apparatus, (3) a bird, (4) a steeplejack? □
5— The Solomon islands are closest to: (1) Hawaii, (2) Aus­
tralia, (3) New Guinea, (4) Philippine islands.
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So far the difficulties of wartime travel here
have been very minor ones, compared with
other warring nations. We can all be thankful
that we are living in a country where these
problems can be worked out by sympathetic
cooperation between a railroad and its cus­
tomers, and not by the orders of a dictator.
The War Bondi
you buy now
will help pay
for a new home
after the war.
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The Friendly
Southern Pacific
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