Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, July 6, 1944
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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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The Way Out
Invasion !
By Kl-TII TAYLOR
Published Every Thursday at 167 Main Street. Ashland, Oregon
Can democracy be applied to in­
ten tio n a l relations? Is there a
wav to work out cooperation? Can
CARRYL H. WINES, Editor and Publisher
individuals, representing strongly
knit groups .solve their problems
in open iliscussion with others si­
Entered as second-class mall m atter in the post office at Ash­
m ilarly b o u n d
t o opposing
land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress
groups? Or must they stand so
of March 3, 1879.
firmly on their own platforms
that there is no common meeting
ground ?
I Probably one of the most ef­
fective proofs of the possibility of
The selection of Thomas Dewey as republican presi­ international cooperation was giv­
in the recent meeting of the In­
dential candidate was as nice a piece of organizational en
ternational Labor Organization.
work as has come up for many moons. There never was Much has been written of the
C harter they drew up Much
any doubt in anybody's mind who the leading candi­ fine
has been reported of the progress­
date would be, but nevertheless it took a lot of plann­ ive action taken. But what was
most impressive to me as I sat in
ing and behind the scenes organization work to put it the
big hall whs the vision of how
1 dignified the effective working
over in the landslide manner in which it was done.
out of democratic procedure
One can hardly claim that Mr. Dewey was chosen for out
can be made.
any stand he has made on some of the vexing questions Courtesy was the watchword
of the day, for he has not said anvthing about them at The delegates never for one mo-
all. The people of the country has no idea what his at- whether they represented m ana­
labor or government, they
titude on these problems will be. He has made no pro­ gement,
never lost sight of the fact that
mises, which probably is a good thing, and he has not they were representatives of a
nation and a whole people.
stated his views on such things as our foreign policy, whole
There was no barrier of speech
and some of our domestic problems as well.
between the people. Three langu­
ages were freely and equally used
Only on the subject of the war has there been any­ Earphones
brought the speeches
thing said and on this he said something about carry­ to the listener in his own tongue
Interpreters. N o o n e
ing on the war so that there would be no interruption through
speech was paramount. Some­
in its continuation. In this matter, while the president times I listened with one ear to
is the commander in chief of the army and navy, he has the English and the other to the
Silent Dewey
very little to say about its actual prosecution The chief
of staff, the leaders of the armed forces, are the men
who determine that and we doubt very much if they
are concerned with who is president and as the plans
have been made many months ago as to the various
phases ,he could have very little to do with the war any
way.
We doubt if Mr. Dewey can be elected on any such
•‘Silent” program as he has started out and he is going
to have to do a lot of explaining and talking before el­
ection time if he hopes to win the election.
Hot Air No Job Maker
g^iarmony^Diffe^ces”vanish-
ed in a common understanding
m^ ’tl °ofthls
to the d' without
" lop
the leads
courtesy
which no organization can exist.
The delegates honestly tried to
work together. There were no
heads but elected ones. Power
politics were laid aside. Emotions
were discouraged. They agreed or
disagreed amicably- and accorded
g*kee.rif5‘yoie
They vf^ e wStS1 iln tn ’tte
speaker finished his speech before
they applauded—politely and calm
iy-
It is a system which creates
good feeling. One thing th a t in­
terested me was its effect on the
delegations. The employers’ repre­
sentatives would take a liberal
stand. The workers' delegates be­
came conservative. (It was our
own workers’ delegate who spon­
sored the inclusion of “trade as-
sociation" in a resolution asking
certain rights for “trade unions”.)
T h e government representatives
b e came representatives rather
than bureaucrats.
W hat d o e s this prove? It
proves that democracy can work,
th at it is possible for m ature hu­
man beings to act together and
consider their mutual problems in
a spirit of harmony.
Some organization along- the
lines of the International Labor
Office is what is needed in the
days to come. We must not try
to change the nations but to
show the nations how to work to­
gether to their mutual advantage
That it can be done, the I.L.O. has
shown. Our hope for the future
will be our ability to put this les­
son into effect.
It becomes increasingly tiresome to hear so-called
“liberals” say that if business and industry cannot op­
erate them in thhe public interest. The threat is that if
business doesn’t measure up to some arbitary demand,
the “liberals” will seek state socialism as the remedy.
Private industry is owned and operated by millions
of thrifty, resourceful citizens. They are anxious to
keep the production wheels turning. Full employment
is their goal. But between them and their goal, are ob­
stacles such as many “liberals” (misnamed) who at
heart want to see private industry destroyed. By de­
vious legislative and tax measures, they would check
the fullest operation of private enterprise in the hope
of creating an excuse to put government into business.
Basic industries such as oil, mining, electric power
and farming, which turn our natural resources into us­
able commodities, are struggling against “liberal” poli­
tical interference that has long since passed from legi­
timate regulation into an outright campaign for per­
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manent public ownership.
The country might as well face the fact that indus­
try can no longer be the scapegoat for many of the na­
tion’s ills. The way to encourage full employment is to
encourage business and industry with fair legislation
and taxation.
Representatives oforganized labor, now that they
“Tuned as it is to the spirit of
are taking an extensive hand in politics, should quit service",
President Powley of the
trying to kid the worker. If government displaces pri­ Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
emphasizes, in his state
vate industry, labor will suffer in lost freedom, and Company
m e n t accompanying dividend
will pay twofold in taxes for every job the government checks mailed today to common
shareholders, "that the telephone
pulls out of the hat.
organization, realizing not only
All the doles, social security promises, soak the rich the profound importance, but also
the full significance of the Euro­
ideas, and ham and eggs every Thursday plans in the pean
invasion, has been perform­
ing with its characteristic earnest
world can’t produce a job-making industry.
It is tim e'for all to realize that political p r o m i s e s : ^ a'c'“ “ 2fth S „ „ 'e T S
cannot create a dollar’s worth of social security be- dltions of the service",
cause there is no way for the government to finance
^ ^ n
such promises except through taxation of the earnings cently additional steps in m ilitary
to provide the patients
of the people. Healthy, prosperous, job-creating pri­ ‘ hospitals
with every possible convenience
vate enterprise is the only free and independent road and comfort in the rendition of
telephone service, with the inno­
to social seecurity.
vation of telephone attendants, in
Pacific T . and T
President Makes
Statement
if
if
it
Our Oil Future
Oil men say that this nation faces the same future
in the m atter of oil that it is now experiencing in the
matter of its timber reserves. At one time it was
thought that the timber resources of this country were
in-exhaustible. We have reached the point where we
are practically without timber resources.
We have thought in the past that our oil supply was
in-exhaustible, but we are beginning to wake up to the
'act that the end of this may be closer than we think,
ist year 17,880 new oil wells were drilled, but at the
ind of the year this country had 698,800,000 less bar­
rels of reserve oil than it had at the beginning of the
pear. Are our oil resources going the same way that
pur timber resources have gone?
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uniform or otherwise appropriate­
ly identified, so th at every assis­
tance will be rendered," pointing
out that in and near m ilitary and
naval establishments, telephone
centers staffed by personnel, es­
pecially trained to handle the
calls of service men and women,
and full-time telephone m anagers
have been provided throughout
the duration a t the various Camps
"Nothing is being left undone”, he
stated, “to assist the armed forces
in every place and in every way,
intelephonlng their homes and
their loved ones."
President Powley’s statem ent to
shareholders follows:
“Realizing not only the pro­
found importance, but also the
full significance of the Epropean
Invasion, our organization, tuned
as it is to the spirit of service, has
been performing with its charact­
eristic earnestness and effort in
these emergency days with that
espirit de corps, efficiency and
countesy which accord with the
finest traditions of the service,
i “Ail telephone services directly
It is estimated that 10 million new homes will be
required in this country during the 10-year period fol-
lowing the war. Many of those homes are being paid ^ " ¿ ‘stai^wuhouff delay’’/' aj -
for today through the purchase of war bonds, a sound though the telephone demand for
way to provide the funds for future construction needs.
^ £ 3 ? $ tfuSm-
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These are oar boys landing on the Norman eoast on “D Day," with their full equipment ready for the llb-
• eration of Axis Europe. Note the expressions on their fares. The soldier on the left Is a bai<»oka man »nil«
the one on the right carries a Tommy Gun. In the distance offshore is an armada of Invasion rraft. wa< a
them op with your purchase of War Honda
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cared for immediately -because ’of
lack of facilities continues to in­
crease.
"Faced with a shortage of faci­
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lities and a record high volume of '•:.o:.o:.o
long distance traffic, we appreci­
Anybody with a little patch
ate deeply the fine cooperation of
of ground no bigger than u
the public in aiding us to keep
barn door, he should have u
the liines open for urgent war
garden. Sunshine and ex er­
calls and for the calls of service
Appointment of L P. Hopkins
cise, they make good health,
men and women which are usual­
as superintendent of Southern I’ac
and while you an* home and
ly made between 7 P. M. and 10
in the garden versus hurry­
ific's Portland division, effective
P. M., about the only period of th
ing elsew here looking for
' July 1, with headquarters in Port
day in which they have an oppor­
»«me plip'e to »|>end your
land, was announced yesterday by
tunity to make their calls.
m oney, you are getting a-
J W Corbett, general manager for
“In our endeavor to assist In
heud in 2 w ays. You are get­
j the company.
every way the armed forces, we
ting food that Is fresh and
Hopkins, now head of the rail-
have taken recently additional
delectable. You are saving
| road's Suit 1-uke d.vision, will suc­
steps to effect the most conven­
extra m azum a that you can
ceed M. L. Jennings, promoted to
‘ ient possible telephone service a r ­
put Into more war stam ps.
the superlntendency o t the Sacra­
rangements for each particular
A home grown tom ato, or
mento division, with headquarters
situation in m ilitary hospitals.
at Sacramento, California.
a m uskm ellon, or a half dozen
Portable bedside service and con­
Starting us a car repairer, Hop­
roasting ears right off the
veniently located public telep­
kins has had nearly 38 years' ser-
stalk, brother, you got som e­
hones are made available and spe­
I vice with Southern Pacific. He be­
thing worth while. And with
cial arrangem ents are made for
came an assistant trainm aster on
the wur stam ps, no place for
the injured and for those with
the company's Coast division in
m oney should com e ahead of
physical handicaps. Telephone a t­
1918, then night general yard
them If w e are to g et this war
tendants, in uniform or otherwise
master at San Francisco, and sup­
over in any kind of pronto
appropriately identified, are pro­
ervisor of transportation with
tim e. War stam p« are not
vided so that the patients will
headquarters in l» s Angeles,
Just for the other guy— they
have every assistance in the rend
i Hopkins’ next promotion was to
an* for every one of us—
ition of our service. In and near
young nr old, handsom e or
trainm aster on the Salt I-akc and
m ilitary and naval establishments
Coast divisions, and In 1935 he
otherw ise.
telephone centers staffed by per­
And talking about being
was advanced to assistant super­
sonnel, especailly trained to hand­
handsome. If I w as a young
intendent of the San Joaquin divi­
le the calls of service men and
woman and did not yet have
sion, with headquarters at Bakers
women, have been provided and
a husband—and wanted one—
field, California. He took the same
telephone m anagers are serving
I would not depend upon
¡position at San F ra n c isc o on the
on full-time duty at the various som
ething in a bottle for my
Coast division in 1937, and two
ounps."
com plexion— I'd get m yself a
years later became assistant to
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the general manager at San F ran­
cisco. In August, 1940, he went to
Yours with the low down,
------BUY BONDS------
Ogden as superintendent of the
JO SERRA
Salt I^ake division.
Jennings, who takes over the
superlntendency of the Sacramen­
to division with the retirem ent'of
W. L. Hack, is returning to the
division where he started railroad­
ing as a yardman in 1906. He has
been head of the Portland division
since April, 1942.
The Ix)w Down from .
Hickory Grove . . .
New Head of S.P.
Lines in Oregon
Wliy Farmers
Should Buy War Bonds
by Richard L. Adams
Professor of Farm Management
University of California
Contrary to the views held by
net farm income now
about three times that of sorhe farmers, it is extremely
W ITH
doubtful that we are on a new and
1938-1940, farmers and ranchers
are in an outstandingly tine finan­
cial position to buy War Bonds to
an extent far beyond the total—
good as it is—already reached.
In the first place, it’s the patri­
otic thing to do. There's no real
sacrifice in using money to "back
the attack.” What is a loan of
one’s cash compared to the sacri­
fices of the boys who are taking
on more than a man-sized job?
Secondly, it’s the wise thing to
do. If history repeats itself—and
I for one firmly believe it will—
these present-day high net incomes
can, after the war is over, go into
a "tail-spin” to levels far below
what is deemed normal. Over the
past one hundred years agricul­
tural earnings have been at so-
called normal levels for three to
four years for each year of high
returns. And note that these re­
turns are net—that sum remaining
after farming expenses have been
paid. Thus allowance is made for
higher costs—of labor, of supplies,
of equipment, of taxes.
Without doubt present earn­
ings of most farmers are the
highest In the history of United
States agriculture.
Today's high returns to agricul­
ture make good reading. But with
the increased earnings there is
bound to be a marked rise in
prices for farm properties, in
speculative buying of farms, and,
(again if history repeats itself) in
a marked increase in the real es­
tate mortgage debt, followed by
mounting foreclosures if and when
payments of interest and install­
ments on principal cannot be met.
permanently higher economic lev­
el. World War I was proof of this.
So the wise farmer, looking
ahead and planning for his future,
will reduce his debts to manage­
able proportions If and when less­
ened Incomes must again be
faced; resist the temptation to
speculate in farm lands; and cre­
ate reserves.
The reference to “resist specu­
lating” doesn't mean no buying.
There may be need to enlarge a
farm, or to acquire additional
lands for business reasons. But
caution suggests that one not be
caught in the excitement of a ris­
ing tide of buying merely for spec­
ulation's sake.
That reset ve fund can be
created by purchase of Bonds.
Money thus "salted away” can
create a cash reserve for use
when times may not be so
good. It will serve as "an an­
chor to windward” for times
when cash is an asset. And
when Isn’t it? Bonds can even­
tually be used for needed re­
pairs or improvements. Bonds
can supply the "stake” to set
sons up In business once they
are mustered out of service.
Agriculture is for the time being
In a strong financial position.
Farmers, these days, are in a
position to accumulate substantial
“stockpiles” of crops, livestock,
and livestock commodities, but, as
well, of good United States Bonds.
Think it over. Then Invest to
your limit In order to Insure a real
future for your country, yourself,
and your children.
U. S. T rttuary Dipartm int
BUY E M M
WAR BONDS
Tocfai/f
SEE US EOR YOUR
INSURANCE
FARM & DWELLING
AUTO AND TRUCK
LIABILITY
BURGLARY
HEALTH, ACCIDENT
AND LIFE
J. F. EMMETT
167 EAST MAIN STREET
Phone 8531
DRY
SLABS
PHONE 5751
GUNTER FUEL CO.
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