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 TWMK yOü'Äi SMART? GETTING PATRICIA A Prison Camp in the Desert . . . Italian prisoners of war capturrd in the El Alamein area are shown being led into their “cage" by a Brit­ ish guard. 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