i
cerned, that may be the fault of i
the leniency of local rationing
boards, but nothing will stop that
leniency except orders from .. ash-
ington calling for stringent anu.a-
tions on B and C ration cards.
WARNING
.... winter
Mr. Ickes recently quoted from
a survey showing that less than
By LYTLE HILI.
one-half of one percent of eastern
ers who have furnaces which could THE FARM TO TIIE KEM'l'E
be converted to coal have taken
It is estimated that about 13,-
steps to convert them. He also 000.000 pounds of bombs were
reported that only 4 percent had dropped on Cologne and Essen In
considered the possibility of such the two big raids made by the
conversion.
Royal Air force. Half of this ton
Those figures led him to issue a nage would be steel and half of
new warning on the subject which the steel would be made from
was given scant attention by the "scrap." Or in othtr words about
newspapers and less attention by 3,250,000 pounds 1.205 tons of
the newspaper readers.
scrap were dumped on the factor
I talked to one man who doesn't ies of Cologne and Essen in Just
worrying "because my oli dealer two big air raids.
has promised me that I'll get all
These figures give us a rough
the oil I need."
glimpse of what we are going to
I talked to an oil dealer who need in scrap-iron and scrap-steel
said: "Don't worry I'll take care to win the war. Every pound which
of my regular customers.”
each of us can dig up is going to i
I talked to a farmer who com be needed. We have got lo have a
stock pile of millions of tons in
mented: "This country's okay
reserve. We can't Just keep doling
they’U never let us freeze."
I talked to a housewife who it out to the factories day by day ! i
said: "They'll surely take care of hoping that the salvage collections
the homes where there are child will keep up with their daily needs
If we handled it in this manner
ren." And so it goes.
factory after factory would have
Here it is getting near the end to close down because they had |
of August. In another month theie run short of material temporarily
may be frost. In two months the and had to wait for their allot-
thermometers will go down to ment. This would be the way to
stay.
lose the war.
If there’s going to be enough oil
Over and above the terrific load
to go around, all right. But if that which has been placed upon the
shortage is going to be severe as industries is a new Job which they
I think it is apt to be- let's hop«' have taken on voluntarily and in a
Washington gets tougher or shouts spirit of patriotism of which Amer
louder before snow flies.
icans can be proud. Volunteer com-
/1BOVE z/u'
TODAY
and
TOMORROW
By DON ROBINSON
FUEI............................... 'Wolf, Wolf
hew people in the east are tak
ing senousiy the threat of a fuel
on shortage this winter
Most everyone in trie east ad
mits reading or hearing about that
threat. They realize it is a pos
sibility. But, from what I gather
after talking to many people in the
east about it, they are not worry
ing for one or ail of these three
reasons:
1. The scares, debates, confu
sion and uncertainty about scarci
ties during the past year have
made them adopt a "wait and see"
attitude. Wnen someone shouts
"wolf, wolf" they no longer pay
attention unless they see the wolf
with their own eyes.
2. They feel sure that, if there
was going to be a major oil short
age, the government would issue
louder and more convincing warn
ings tlian it has done so far. An
emergency fireside chat by the
President and big official emergen
cy messages in the newspapers
would certainly be used to spread
the alarm if the government
thought this threat was really go
ing to become an actuality.
3. If there was a real danger of
homes being without fuel this win
ter, the government would be more
strict in its gasoline rationing.
With pleasure driving continuing
at the rate of millions of gallons
of gasoline each week-end, those
in charge of the oil problem sure
ly would ship less gasoline and
more oil to the east right now if
it was a choice between eastern
ers going to the seashore on a
warm Sunday or freezing on a
cold winter day.
ACTION
Thursday, Aug. 27, 1942
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Page 4
mittees of business executives are I
I remain at the end of the growing
already operating in over 400 In
season In many gardens Here on
dustrial centers in u tremendous
the west coast especially, mat bet
drive to salvage every ounce
gardening Ims been seriously ilia
At
leuat
io
vegetables
commonly
useful inuteiia. widen trie factories grown in Oregon u.e miiu.... .<>. iuptcd by the removal of Jap i al
cun spuic.
ubso.ete machinery,
deneta, lienee the family that
in tlic fresh state, then
tools, »locks and dies, lixturea, e.c. storage
stores its own vegetables will I*
prolong
mg
the
vupp.y
of
tie.,
far more certain of having a fresh
are ueing garnered lot Hie nation
thiough full and wim
supply through the winter than
al scrap neap, btuu wmeh "may produce
months,
points
out
A.
G
B
Bou
come in hunuy some day is going quet, Vegetable nop apevl,«iiiH ut those who depend on the market.
ill with tile leal of it. ' Some uav, L.i„on State college.
One of the first essentials in
must take care of itseii -"today"
In one of the mciicm of food-for- successful storage la to choose on
is the all important moment!
victory leaflets issued by the ex ly sound vegetables that arc free
But th«1 industries can't do it all tension
Prof. Bouquet front serious blemishes or injuries
they haven t got the amount of describes department
methods
of
storing beets, and then to handle them carefully
scrap we must have io wm thia canola, pursnipe, Milady
while they are being placed in
war. The 6.000,000 farms in the rutabagas, cabbage, celery, lumi
onions, storage, ways Prof. Bouquet Tl<<
United States must do the rest
peppeis, potatoes, pumpkins, to leaflet, which may be hnd free at
and they will do it and are doing matoes. squash and dried beuna any extension office, describe«
it. In small towns and big towns, and peas,
both bin and pit storage and gives
all over the country, scrap com .With probably more produce many hints on avoiding spoilage
mittees are being formed. Towns, produced In victory gardens this
•
counties and plates are ruiuung an year
than bus been grown bv I
All
but
2
3
per
cent of Colo
imaginary luce to outsirip their ordinary farmer or city dweller in
rivais. It should be mad«* a real decades, a considerable surplus of rado's residents are citizens of the
race with public honors to those some of these vegetables is suie to I nlted States. SSCOrdlng to 1IHO
census reports
who lead.
But it takes the individual far
mer to make th«* town scrap heap.
If he puts his contribution off
week alter week the scrap heap
won't grow. If h<* thinks "It niuy
come in useful some day"--we
may lose the war some day. Every
piece of useful material which we
own but which we can do without
at this time should go toward vic
tory. If we put all the money we
can possibly spare in savings
banks and war bonds we can buy
new and better things when the
war is won And won it will be If
we do our full share, If every far
mer throws something on the town
scrap heap every Saturday when
he comes to town; If every town
forms a committee to push
the drive and keep it going and if
we "do it now" and k«-ep on doing
it.
Our county war b«>ard or farm
implement «i«-aler can advise us
how to start a town scrap heap
and how to sell it. The proceeds
can go to some town institution or
charity. If no on«* knows want to
do to get stalled, write the Con
Gen. Feodor von Bock. Ihr man who blaatrd his way Into the Cau-
servation Division. War Production
Board. Railroad Retirement Build casua oil hr Ida by ahrrr wrisht of panier«, is shown (Irfl) with General
Lindemann on the southern Kusaian front. The Kuauiana drraollahed the
ing, Washington. D. C.. for advice
Vegetable Storage Tip
(liven by Bouquet
i
They Struck ‘Oil* in Russia
A
Maikop oil fields before they abandoned them to the invading Nail
hordes, in line with their "scorched earth" policy.
.... program
Personally I don't agree with
the people who refuse to worry.
The statistics on oil-needs ver
sus oil shipments and available
tank cars indicate that this threat
is the real McCoy. But I do agree
thoroughly with the logic of the
reasons people in the east are
giving for their attitude
Why doesn’t the government |
really get tough about this thing i
and order everyone who has a con
vertible oil burner to convert it to,
a coal burning furnace right now ? ■
Why can't an oil rationing pro
gram be announced immediately—
on the basis that no one can ap-1
ply for oil next winter unless they'
can prove that their furnace could
not be converted for oil burning ? ,
ICKES................................... blame
As petroleum co-ordinator, Har
old Ickes is going to have most of
the blame fall on his shoulders if
the people in the east don't get
fuel this winter.
Mr. Ickes will be able to point
to numerous warnings which he
issued—he will be able to say: "I
told you so!”—but that isn't going
to save him from blame.
In a country where people won’t
even pay any attention to a "keep
off the grass” sign unless it reads I
"Positively," Mr. Ickes ought to
know that a few publicity releases
handed to newspapers, aren’t go
ing to convince an audience which
has learned to look with suspicion
on practically all news stories with
Washington datelines.
And if Mr. Ickes would take a
Sunday off to visit one of the
beaches in the east, or one of the
race tracks, or one of the out-of-
town roadhouses, he would quickly
realize that the people can't get
too excited about this oil transpor
tation problem when they see how
much gasoline is being shipped
east to be burned up on non-essen
tial driving.
As far as that gasoline is con-
I
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