* Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, August 24, 1944 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Published Every Thursday at 167 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon CARRYL H. WINES, Editor and Publisher . OUR OWN BACK YARD -i By K U H TAYLOR "The wisest thing, we suppose, that a uun can do tor his land is Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash the work that lies under his nose land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress 1 with the tools that lie under his of March 3, 1879. haud.” We may not be a k.ng as he ot whom Kipling wrote. We may be only "hitie" people with out influence or power. But the The Logging Industry Suffers smgan applies to us - wherever Recent orders ot the ODT regarding the rationing of we whatever we do. heavy duty truck tires, has hit home immediately in A live, tew ot' you will remember this section. The use of logging trucks was cut down how Edwurd Bok started out to beautify America a lifetime ago. immediately. He didn't urge extravagant plans, Apparently there is no doubt that the number of to accomplish the end at the be heavy duty tires for trucks and buses is limited, and ginning. ft wasn't a great cam as the military vehicles get first call on the remaining paign. But as a result of his work, roses began to grow where there supply, civilian use must be curtailed. But in a section were weeds and our litUe towns where the logging industry is one of the leading in became garden spots All he did to get people to beautify dustries of the area, such as wre have here in Jackson was their own back yards. county, it will mean a decided drop in production from We all know how one rundown the county, unless some substitute is found or other house will depreciate the property remedy found to help the situation. For the logging in value of an entire street. And fixing up one place is conta dustry in this area is decidely carried on on rubber how gious - making all property on the tires. There are a large number of trucks bringing in street more valuable. the logs from the woods and again there are a large What has this to do with us to Well, maybe I am wander number of trucks carrying the finished products of the day? ing around Robin Hood's barn - mills on rubber tired wheels to its final destination. but I am getting right back to Inasmuch as these loads of logs and lumber are heavy,! the post-war period - and to per responsibility. they require the best in tires and a large number of sonal How your town handles the sit them. Already, reports have come in of restricted uation of jobs for returning vet schedules due to the lack of tires, and as time goes on erans, post-war unemployment, of factornes to peace we may be sure that the industry will be further re conversion time production - will have a lot stricted unless more tires are forthcoming. It is a mat to do with the way the nation and the world handles the same pro ter of deep concern to all. We have not mentioned the other trucking industries blems. If you keep freindliness alight; in the county and the bus lines through Ashland, but if you keep up the habit of work they too will suffer because of this lack of tires, and ing together; if you, like the pion eers who founded America, solve the community too, will suffer with them. It is serious! your problems in a neighborly, co operative spirit, there is a lot better chance for the nation - and for the world. Those Pacific Isles This is the duty of the little As the war in the Pacific grow’s and we are taking people in the little towns - of you more and more of the islands in that vast empire away : me and our friends and neighbors. from the enemy, the question comes up more frequent We must beautify our own back and make our community a ly. What are we going to do with them? We gather yards living proof of what conscientious, from what we read that most of them are of small cooperative planning can do We value as far as industry is concerned, about their only must prove that we are just as in time of peace as in value being as outposes of our defensive system, to intelligent time of war; that we care just as fortify and arm and keep armed, to protect our islands much about our neighbors as we , and mainland from another attack such as we suffered do about our Allies; that ppverty. destitution, want, persecution at ! at Pearl Harbor. home move us to action as much I The islands we have won back that are of any real as these same things stir us when value from agricultural or industrial viewpoint, al the yare thousands of miles away. . Unless we can retain war time ' ready belong to some of our allies, such as England, unity, unless with our advantages the Netherlands, etc., and only the smaller more poor we can demonstrate the four free of the islands apparently belong to the Japs. But we doms in America, they can not be made secure any place in the can hardly turn them back to them when this war is world. over. We have now learned to our sorrow that any of We don't have to do the whole the islands they owned were fortified, and closed to all job at once. All we have to do is our part of it - we have to do foreign inspection. is to clean up our own back yard. ★ ★ ★ you should know about First National Bank t fl You may make a loan lor any J Q worthwhile purpose. . . r A The cost is lo w ... You repay monthly over Q a year’s period. . . Natives of these Jap dominated islands have been -------- o-------- about liquidated and apparently the people now living New Series of Blue on them are mostly of Japanese descent. If we kept Stamps Valid Sept. 1 them, would we have to take the inhabitants also or Five more blue stamps worth could we remove them to Japan ? ten points each a total of 50 points, be valid for buying Yes, the problems facing us in the far Pacific are rationed will processed foods begin many and will take a lot of good common sense to ning September 1, 1944, OPA of eolve. And after all the American lives and property ficials announced this week. G,5 H5, J5, K5, that have been lost in winning them back from the en and The L5, stamps, will be good Indefinitely- emy we can hardly overlook them, or let them go back Following the Introduction of 10 point stamps last February, it lo that enemy when peace settles over the Pacific. ★ ★ ★ A New Industry Is Born New industries are tne inevitable aftermath of the tremendous human efiort involved in modern war. Alter tne last war it was tne automobile. After tms war, which has hinged on air power, it will be the air plane. Tne aviation industry, including commercial air transportation, has a future that literally staggers tne imagination. The Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, Charles 1 ¡Staton, predicts 300,000 civil aircraft three years after the war, and 500,000 by the end of tne first postwar decade. He believes that there will be a need xor double the existing 3,000 airports. Even during the present war, the commercial air carriers have turned in a performance little short of miraculous. By nearly douoiing the number of hours aloft for each aircraft, they were able with half the equipment to fly 15 per cent more revenue passenger- ‘ miles in 1943 than in 1942, 31 per cent more express pound-miles, and 70 per cent more mail pound-miles, xet stepped up service was not attained at the sacrifice of safety. Number of miles flown per fatal accident in uomestic air carriers operations reached an all-time nigh of 46,560,835 in 1943, against 22,020,572 in 1942. Coincident with the growtn of the air carriers to the stature of a full fledged service industry, has risen tne problem of regulation. As the close of war draws nearer and as further expansion of aviation impends, tnis problem becomes increasingly serious. There is uanger that conflict between the states and the Fed eral government will hamper efficient airline service. H.n example of such conflict threatens in Colorado, which has under consideration a set of airline regula tions which, if put in force, would contradict and over lap existing Federal laws, making airline operation through Colorado virtually impossible. j: I has been the policy of OPA to validate five blue stamps on the first day of each calendar month. Loans made in any amount from *50 t o * 1 0 0 0 ... SEE US FOR YOUR I INSURANCE I FARM & DWELLING AUTO AND TRUCK LIABILITY BURGLARY HEALTH, ACCIDENT AND LIFE , » ■ S * zZ.zz..,^. >.v^z>X^x>zJZZ/zXzziz % z. * * • >4 J. F. 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