Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, September 7, 1944 Guest Editorial SOUTHERN OREGON MINER V. D. “BERT* M lll.r. Chairman of Jackson County Democratic Central Committee. PublUhed Every Thursday at 167 M ain Street, Ashland. Oregon There are at the present time seventeen employees connected with the Ashland Post Office. Annual payroll being ubout Entered as second-class m ail m atter in the post office at Ash 130,000.00. The working facilities land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress such as ventilation, lighting, etc. of M arch 3, 1879. of the building in which the post office is located is far from be ing conducive to proper health. No criticism whatsoever is here by directed against the personnel of our post office. There is noth Beginning this week, the Miner starts a series of ing more the personnel can do than is being done to improve guest editorials in the belief that our readers might the physical aspect of their wish to read what others in the community think about quarters. And no particular criti is directed at the owners local and other matters. This week’s guest editorial is cism of said building. It is merely a by V. D. Miller, Jackson county central committee matter of our community having these antiquated quar chairman. Other civic, educational, and religious lead outgrown ters of the Ashland Post Office. ers have been and are being invited to write on what We have every reason to be lieve that the population of Ash ever subject they desire, and these will be run from land is close to 6,000. Our trade time to time, each week we hope. community is close to 16,000 pop With our U.S.A. being the ulation. Our trade area annual taxes are approximately $155,- ! world’s richest and greatest 000.00. Our postal receipts for • nation, it is hard to fathom why we are such an unsettl the last tabulated year were ap ed lot. Nobody seems to be proximate ly $41,000.00, be ing too happy. Something seems larger than receipts of the fol lowing post offices in the state ! haywire as we keep harking to spell-binders who tell us of Oregon, of same class: Burns, Back to school ye lads and lassies. How fortunate Bandon, to listen a little longer and Beaverton, Coqui 11 e, we will emerge improved, you are that America has a free public school system. C a n b y , Clat skanie, Cottage and in great shape, and can r o ve„ Freewater, Gresham, Your ancestors, even a few generations ago. had lesser G sit down by a brook and be Heppner, Hermiston, Indepen soon. opportunities. School terms were short, high schools dence, John Day, Junction City, secure—pretty Of all the things us citiz Lakeview, Lebanon, Molal 1 a, were not yet born, consolidated schools and vocational Monmouth, Myrtle Point, New ens in the Land of the Free upon, it is our right to training were only a dream of progressive educators berg, Newport, North Bend, insist be a sucker. So long as it is North Portland, Nyssa, Ontario, who were placed by some people in the fanatical class. Oswego, Prinveille, Rainer, Red something like maybe buy ing a brass watch at the Reedsport, St. Helens, In America education has always been a means to a mond, street carnival, it is not so Seaside, Sheridian, Silverton, career for the individual. In Europe, especially in Ger Springfield, Sweet Home, Tole bad, but when you com mence to see things like our do, Troutdale, Vale, Veronia, many over a period of many years, careers have been Warrenton, Supreme Court being under Woodburn, McMinn- mined and beginning to tar developed mostly for the State, evaluated on a basis of vile. nish, it is time to adjust our Ashland postal receipts are military importance. And th at’s the reason why the larger specs. than the following cities But back to being happy youth of Germany, for example, trained to the rhythm in Oregon that have Federal or glum. Over in Russia Burns ,Gre s h a m , of the “goose step”, think only in terms of conquest Buildings: when the army fetches in Lakeview, Newberg, Ontario, a batch of Germans, Uncle and selfish aims. McMinnvile. Joe Stalin says, “Stir things The question is “Why should Be happy, therefore, young Americans, that again Ashland up boys—have some fun— be bypassed continually off a few cannon." But the school doors swing wide open in this land of op while other smaller cities are al shoot here in our U.S.A. they pull lowed Federal Buildings. We portunity. Take full advantage of the training offered suggest that the Ashland Post a long face and tell us it is form to cheer. to lay firm the foundations of careers in the line of War Committee should give this bad Letting freedom ring is matter serious consideration. Se your choice, be it that of doctor, lawyer, nurse, leader curing a new Federal Building kinda getting out-of-date in in industry or in any other field. Remember one thing : on a post war set-up is not an our Land of the Free. Yours with the low down, The world never held bigger opportunities for men impossibility. JO SERRA There is a saying that “A per and women to serve unselfishly in every sphere of life. son is judged oftentimes by the he wears.” Cities are of Respect your teachers and fall in line with the routine clothes tentimes judged by the post of of the day. Your goal can be attained if you have the fice they have. This matter be studied carefully and will to do. School days are the most precious days in a should FORT SILL. OKLA., Aug. 31 tactful plans laid in order to re Capt. Benjamin H. Brown, Ash life-time. Don’t neglect the golden opportunities they medy this deficiency in our fair land, Oregon, has been selected city. offer to rich and poor alike. to attend the officers advanced ------------o------------ course of the Field Artillery School at this post. Captain Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Brown, Route 2, Ash By Ruth Taylor land, has reported here from It is the habit with the major Camp Pendleton, Va. He and his ity in speaking of the minority to wife live at 1715 Gore Ave., Law- comment on how carefully they ton, Oklahoma. must be, to say that like Caesar’s Under the heading “A Happy Note”, the Christian wife they must always be above Enlisted men and officers are that each and every Science Monitor pays the following tribute to the Town reproach, act must be watched, and that the individual must consider the Band: of his actions upon his To the numerous agencies which are quietly further effect group. That is plain horse sense - I’ve preached it myself. ing America’s war endeavor, add the Town Band. But sometimes I wonder if the The Town Band isn’t playing many new pieces this majority in this country ever year, since there is scant time for rehearsals. Instead, realized that this applies to us v as minor- it is offering the old favorites, including the pulse-I ¡£iu- that we™» but^mi race stirring Sousa marches. But in a thousand communi and nationality. It is up to us at all times to be ties these long, torrid summer evenings, it is affording good advertisements for demo cracy and the democratic way of much-needed relaxation. The Army, by maintaining groups of uniformed life.We preach to the Europeans of musicians for the primary purpose of playing, has the folly of their national and barriers, of the dividing , i long recognized the value of band music as a'morale trade lines between countries. But we ' maintainer. During World War Two, the Town Band don’t see anything tragic, only humorous, in the story of the is performing a similar and highly important service Boston g e n t l e w o m a n who for the civilian population of the Nation. couldn’t understand why there should be a fog in San Francisco when it was three thousand i miles away from the ocean. 1 1 We turn to the East and talk to the Asiatics of the Wonders of | Democracy and of how they should conduct their lives. But CARRYL H. WINES, Editor and Publisher | how well do we demonstrate the brotherhood of mankind7 How good is our own record? Both na tional and personal? Are we en tirely guiltless? Every act of discrimination, every outbreak of intolerance, every one of the vituperative cut fights in which we indulge dur ing political campaigns is a black mark against democracy in the eyes of the world. Of course w« know what w . mean. We discount half our own talk. But the people of other na tions take us at face value and ask - "Is that democracy?" We are judged abroad - just us we judge our own minorities - by our actions and our speech as individuals. And as individuals we must bear witness for the things in which we believe. And as we would be judged - so must we act ------------o----------- A Guest Editorial The Low Down from Hickory Grove . . . Back to School Capt Ben H. Brown at Fort Sill, Okla. We, Too The Town Band constantly returning to the na lion's only Field Artillery school for instruction in the latest artil lery tactics and techniques. The accurucy and effect with which artillery fire has been de livered on the enemy by our troops overseas reflects the value of tnis training. u •V- Dalles Police Hold Boys For Car Theft Paul Morris of Ashland and Robert Taylor of Phoenix, both ubout fifteen years of uge, were arrested this week by police at The Dalles. Oregon for the alleg ed theft of three cars and some personal property. First car sto len was the one belonging to William Brown of Ashland, pol ice said, and was found after be ing abandoned near Prospect. A Chrysler coupe was stolen near Prospect and later was found in a wrecked condition near Bend. At noon Tuesday a Ford was stolen from Bend and dis covered near Maupin, north of Bend. 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