SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Thtirs. at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND, OREGON ¥ Entered as second-alaaa matter February 15, 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879 * TELEPHONE 8561 "THE TRUTH WILL. United Nations Are Blasting The Axis Powers As Defense Plants Are Working 24 Hour Shifts Thursday. February *1, 1913 AUTOMOBILE like I \ s I li A N C E That you can i I i -| h - ii <I < hi and Ruth Giffen Ihiblishers SUBSCRIPTION RATES III Mill A A< < IIIEVr LIFE tin Advance) SIX MONTHS $150 ONE YEAR $2 00 1 Mailed Anywhere in the United States) M. T. BURNS ox hie l’i. v/. 1 SET YOU FREE WHEN IT COMES ! ANOTHER N AIL One of the most remarkable jobs ever done by the fire insurance industry was the recovery of 10,000 tons of crude rubber which was given up for lost in the disastrous Fall River fire which destroyed the 30 buildings containing the rubber at the Firestone plant at Fall River, Massachusetts, October 12, 1941. The recovery of this rubber illustrates an asset of the United Nations which cannot be put down in figur es, namely, the ingenuity and ability of free enterprise to adapt itself quickly and successfully to meeting and mastering emergencies. American business men, unaccustomed to accept ing the word ‘impossible,” would not concede that all the rubber was lost at Fall River. Despite the hope less outlook, the Rubber Reserve Corporation, the Firestone Company and the fire insurance companies tackled the salvaging job. The Underwriters Salvage Company, owned by fire insurance companies and operated in 36 states, went to work. “Strip” mining methods were used—Steam shovels, a crane, trucks and heavy equipment for mining operations. What amounted to a steam laundry was built to clean chunks of “mined” rubber of dirt and muck, by live steam at 200 pounds pressure. Through winter, spring and summer 65 men work ing three shifts “laundered” the recovered rubber. It was shipped to the nation’s leading rubber goods manu facturers. Today it is on the fighting fronts—10,000 tons that was given up for lost. Once more, private enterprise drives a nail in the Axis coffin. Wlit'ii I rouble romr* Io you —and II will, In •«me form — mv Hint II In IlghtentMl by lilt- I h - iii -III v iif a<liM|Uuti- III- Mintin'«*, 14*t tin I m - I'Ulillsrloi h . your Inviirnut-r ★ Billings Agency RKAI I » I a I I nnd HFAI IN Ml l< A XUE I'liiinr H7KI II Emit Multi (1) This mountain of machines operated by women "8omswhers In Canada" eject 303 Braes cartridge sates. (Photo WIB, Ottawa) (2) This olrl on the floor as she Installs Copper cables on a basic trainer (Photo Valtee Aircraft). (3) “Somewhere on the Pacific Coast” Norma Rae Is reaching for a high note part ot the U.S.O. entertainment. (Photo Acme) (4) Australian women like those of other United Notions are working This woman Is servicing the staff car she drives. (5) A Girl Coppersmith somewhere In England braiing Harness Tubes. A perfect joint has to be mads. (Bntith Official Photo). RODUCTION of Ships. Planes. Tanks. Ammuni P tion and other war armament by the United Na tions has long since exceeded those of the Axis Powers. Soon the United State« will be pioduclng more equipment than Germany, Italy and Japan The great Copper mines of this country and South ¿merica are working three eight hour shifts so that 'he Brass fabricating planta and other Industries turning out war materials for our armed force« and those of the United Nations will have a authclrnt supply of the red metal to keep them going full blast until the Axis Nations are uttvrly cruxlu-l Millions of pounds of Copper and Brass are being used each mouth in thia country while many other millions are being shipped through ls>n<i l^-aar to other of our Allies Three million women ere working In War Industry plants while more than twice thn> number are employed In England Russia. Canada and Australia are also employing many women. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, after returning from his gruelling experience in the South Seas and his Ilnmlng Every United Stativi .consumption of inspection of fighting fronts, is the only man who has in money saved, and in the greater variety and better eggs in lfMO was 311 per capita Wrdnemla> mid SiHunlm said what the American people need to hear in con quality of products and merchandise offered. com[mred with the Record high of Xitra Retail stores never before faced such problems as 342 in 1937 and the jjccord low of nection with production problems. In the newspapers 270 in 1935 today. Securing goods for distribution requires ex- , and in the news reels he said that if the soldiers could be transferred from the hell-holes they occupy on the pert knowledge, foresight and an understanding of For the first time In more than battlefronts, to our factories, and if the employees in laws and regulations here-to-fore unheard of in this 12 years. Russian furs wtll be auctioned In New York Rainbow Gardens the factories could be transferred to the hell-holes, pro-- nation. There is one request that merchants now make of duction in this country* would double in thirty days. 137 Main St. Thomaa Jrffcrnon ut oft'-n call- By the tone of his voice and his expression, you all consumers: Between now and the time full war «1 the god-father of the United , could see that he was disgusted with the Pollyanna rationing takes effect late in February, don’t hoard. Stax-e marine band The merchants ask this because they are cooperating talk about workers at home being classed as filling one would be huccmm C u I In with the government to the utmost to avoid disruption the If future A gissi line is the Mhorteet ins “battle stations.” let him-make the mont Captain Rickenbacker emphasized that nothing the of consumer supplies. Merchandisers, no matter how ef of the present Mary Baker Eddy tance between two ilaU-a people in this country can do will in any measure equal ficient, cannot distribute products that don’t exist. what the boys on the battle lines are doing. They don’t Lend-lease and military demands have made deep in I hç VUorld’s News Seen Through get overtime pay and they work day and night if nec roads on supplies of all kinds. It is up to the consumer to cooperate in dividing what is left. essary. T he C hristian S c ienc e M onitor 111 An International Daily Neu *l>al>er The people agree with Captain Rickenbacker. Just Pabtokot by itti < IIRISTIAN M If \< I PUBI l-IIISt. SOI It TV RICKENBACKER SQUADRON because some of us wear “tin hats” at home, we don’t One. Norway Street, hmton, Ma*a<hu«rti« Ten thousand workers in the Ingalls Shipyards in it Truthful—Conatruifive—Unbiased—I ree from Sensational- want to become swelled up with the idea that we are ism — Editorials Are Timely and Instructive, and Ils Dady filling “battle stations”—we are not. Battle stations Mississippi have organized the “Rickenbacker Squad Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. are where the bullets fly and men are dying; where ron” in honor of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, and have Price $12 DO Yearly, or $1 00 ■ Month men work as long as there is something to do; where agreed to increase production, "stick closer to and Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, $2 60 a Year. orders are obeyed; where freedom for the individual work harder at our jobs and to reduce absenteeism.” Introductory Offer, 6 Issues 23 Cents. < Obtainable al; The squadron was organized by patriotic Ameri are the guiding stars. < can workers following the Captain ’ s simple and sin Christian-RHence Reading Room 111 < cere message on his return from Guadalcanal. Part RAILROADS WIN NAVAL VICTORY Pioneer Avenue Ashland, Oregon < < of his comment was “ If only our people at home The prophets who a few years ago cried that the could know what those boys are doing for us and for/ railroads were as out of date as the horse and buggy, are without honor at home or abroad. Our railroads our future generations, I think we would take this war more seriously.” probably saved this country from an invasion. We venture to recommend the spirit of the “Ricken He Who Laughs—-Lasts! For example, they moved soldiers and supplies to the backer Squadron” not only to American workers in critical danger points in a matter of hours following war industry, but to all Americans who want to share Pearl Harbor. Without firing a gun they became one THE EXHHlNRTlON QUE ST/ON WRS : of the greatest obstacles to the success of Hitler’s a bit in the winning of the war. 111 DESCRIBE THE SHRPE OF THE WORLD ? submarine campaign on the Atlantic. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS James F. Byrnes, Director of Economic Stabiliza THAT /s THE HNSlNER. tion, is quoted in the newspapers of December 30. as A group of laymen, Episcopal, Methodist, Presby TH/3 IMPUDENT VOUNG saying: “The railroads have done a magnificient job. terian, Lutheran and Baptist in Charleston, S. C., is al MRN GRVE ! Before Pearl Harbor there were 5,000 barrels of oil armed that a high percentage of children between the delivered in Eastern Seaboard territory a week. Two ages of ten and eighteen, do not know the Ten Com weeks ago it was 761,000 barrels a day ... we have to mandments. They have organized “The Society for look for relief from the immediate situation to the the Propagation of the Ten Commandments” and are railroads and railroad tank cars.” urging clergymen and parents to resume the old prac By their ability to do this unprecedented job of tice, once almost universal, of teaching children the moving oil overland, the railroads snatched from the Decalogue. The “Society” plans to hold no meetings, to submarines one of their greatest prizes, thus win write no by-laws, but to extend its membership and ning what might be termed a major naval victory. to work personally for its stated purpose. It would be impossible to estimate what the efficient 111 functioning of our railroads means to this country in JEFFERS DEMANDS ACTION the fight against our enemies. Rubber Director William M. Jeffers has stated sev eral times that he would “go to the people,” and tell 111 TIME TO HELP them all about the delays in the production of synthet The right of any business to advance by the initiative ic rubber. He doesn’t seem to realize that he has al of its owner or management, operating on a com ready blown-off-the-lid in Omaha style in criticizing petitive basis, has given this country a merchandising "too many experts in Washington,” in which he has in a*. system that is now of incalculable value to consumers included "experts” in the Army and Navy.