Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, September 21, 1044
ford, with Eugene third. Salem
was fourth, Bend fifth, Portland
sixth and Klamath Falls seventh.
The first three places in the
second division were held by The
Published Every Thursday at 167 M ain Street, Ashland, Oregon
Dalles, Albany and Corvallis.
Springfield, Hillsboro and Coq­
uille held the first three spots in
CARRYL H. WINES, Editor and Publisher
the third division, while in the
fourth group, Enterprise was fol­
lowed by Warrenten and Sherid­
Entered as second-class m ail m a tter In the post office at Ash*
an.
land, Oregon, February 15, 1936, under the act ol Congress
Cities are diwided into popu­
of M arch 3, 1879.
lation groups for the contest and
standings are based on each
it
But if in a warmth of spirit, city's current accident exper­
touch with people throughout the in a feeling of friendliness and ience compared to its own pre­
country, particularly during a with a warm and understanding vious three-year average.
war. Therefore, 1 am glad that heart, we approach our neighbor,
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Can it be that German soil is these brief remarks are to be the door will spring wide open. T E A C H E R S E L E C T
published in some of the rural It is next to impossible to nate
Grants Pass,—Cecil Roberts,
no more sacred alter all than papers,
so that their readers can a person we know. The wells principal of Riverside school is
soil ol other nations?
get an idea of the principles
Is it not immunized by the which I believe should guide the of understanding are too deep the new president of the Josep­
hine County Teachers' associa­
mysuc power ol pagan German Attorney General and the mem­ and forgiving.
If we really love life, and tion.
deities against sucn a late as be­ bers of the Department of Ju s­
laughter, fair play and good fel­
Mrs. Hallie T. Woodward, Je r ­
fell soil uiat was merely French, tice.
lowship, we will have no room
Prärie, is vice-president;
Russian, Dutch, Greek, Jugoslav,
The Attorney General, besides for prejudice or cruelty. There ome
Miss Marian Sanders, Grants
Norwegian, Italian, Bulgaria n, advising the President and the
Romanian, Polish, Damsn, Bel­ heads of federal departments and will be no space left for misun­ Pass secretary and treasurer Miss
gian, Albanian, Czechoslovakian, bureaus, acts as Uncle Sam ’s derstanding. If we really want Hazel King was nominated for
for others what we want for our­
Austrian, Finnish?
lawyer. He defends the United selves— happiness and an oppor­ vice-president of the O .S.T A . and
Can a foreign soldier set foot States in suits brought against tunity to grow, we will face the Frank W. Thomas, principal of
on German land except there her and collects claims on behalf adventure that is life in a spirit Grants Pass high school, for mem
bership on the board of trustees.
first be trickery in the non-Ger­ of the United States — taxes, of friendliness for our neighbor.
eigr
man worlds armistice proposals amounts due on contracts, penal­ Because we have opened
ied our
and betrayal by lnternauonal- ties, etc. Last year, for instance, hearts, our neighbor's heart will
minded Jews within the Keich?
we collected over >8,000,000, not be opened unto us.
Can the German soldier, train­ counting taxes.
Just imagine what a world thia
The Department of Justice also would be if we could bring our­
ed and uniformed to conquer a
world, be driven back liKe an prosecutes under the criminal selves to stop distrusting our
ordinary human being even on laws of the United States. Con­ neighbor. And just imagine what
gress makes these laws; and the it would be like if he felt com­
his home territory?
The answer of the so-called Attorney General, through the plete trust in us? Utopian? Yes
“Germanic blood” is no. But United States Attorneys in the —but is it more impossible than
Prospective purchasers of used
there is another answer. The 150 districts throughout the the things that have already trucks again are urged to make
come to pass in the world?
Yanks have it as they push into country, enforces them.
certain before acquiring the ve­
It is essential particularly in
Understanding of our neigh­ hicles that their proposed opera­
Germany north of Trier. The Rus
sians have it as they bite into a democracy that the will of the bor’s needs, awareness of his tions meet all wartime operating
East Prussia. Both forces crossed people, expressed in legislation, problems, self - restraint against requirements.
the supposedly inviolable bord- should be carried out This en­ misjudging or generalizing about
The warning was given by the
eis of Germany on the same day forcement must be prompt to re­ him, willingness to work with Office of Defense Transportation
main effective, and must be mer­ him—and above all and through
—September 11.
should be heeded by A sh­
ciful and just to be respected. all the spirit of friendliness, that l and
The fact of foreign soldiers For
enforcement of law, in the is the secret ray which will open a n d prospective truck buyers
otherwise they m a y discover
fighting their way onto German ultimate sense, is based on the
to any heart.
after purchasing a used truck
soil should be salutary in Ger­ cooperation of the public. Par­ , the door ------------o------------
that it is impossible to obtain
many. One of the things a Nazi- ticularly is this true of the en­
gasoline to operate the vehicle.
fied generation of Germans has forcement during the war of spe­
Wartime shortages of tires, gas
to learn is that Germans are not cial laws, such as priorities and
oline and equipment according to
necessarily better than other O P A regulations made necessary
people, that they have no rights by the special war emergency
P O R T L A N D , Sept. 18— Edgar ODT have made it necessary to
that other people are not equal­ when individual rights have to W. Smith, democratic candidate approve only those truck opera­
ly entitled to, that there is no be subordinated temporarily to for the long term senate seat, an­ tions deemed necessary to the
^^ecial blessing on German arms.
nounced his position at a meet­ war effort and to the essential
the common good.
,
And enforcement must be fair. ing of democratic bigwigs here civilian economy.
Meanwhile it is learned that
The first ten amendments to the yesterday.
“ I have entered the contest” , urgent needs for new school bus­
Constitution, known as the Bill
of Rights, protect the individual he said, “ Because I want to place es to replace worn-out equip­
from the tyranny of injustice— Oregon on record for world wide ment are being met partially this
By Francis Biddle,
protect his right to worship free­ security and enduring peace. I year, after almost total lack of
United States Attorney General ly, to criticize his government want Oregon to have a part in school buses for the past two
It is difficult for federal offi­ freely (even in a war) to be seeing that hte United States years. J . Monroe Johnson, ODT
cials in Washington to keep in secure a g a i n s t unreasonable does it full share in keeping Director pointed out that War
searches and seizures; to be in­ world order. I feel that my child­ Production Board approval of
dicted and tried speedily if he ren’s children should not be forc­ 1941 production quotas will en­
is accused of crime by an im­ ed to fight jmother war 25 years able OD T to authorize purchase
partial jury, to be confronted by from now, as I did 25 years ago, of approximately 5,000 new
witnesses appearing against him. and as my sons are doing today.” school buses this year and that
And enforcement must be im­ | Smith said that he felt peace “more than 2,400 of this number
partial. A democracy cannot be I could have been assured follow- already have been released to
safeguarded
by
undemocratic 1 ing World War 1 if Congress had schools where new busses are
means. No group is above or heeded President Wilson's advice , essential to prevent pupil ab-
for Comprehensive Auto beyond the laws. They apply to “ I aspire to be one of the men j
alike— to all the people—rich in Congress who shall insist this
mobile Insurance is now all
or poor, employer or employee, time that America rise to the
greater than ever. As farmer or factory workers. Cath­ full dignity of her indicated po­
Protestant or Jew . No pol­ sition of leadership for world
cars get older, worn in­ olic,
icy can long endure if it bene­ peace” , he said.
The candidate, who was bom
the expense
sulation can cause fire, fits one group
of the general public. Each group and raised near Pendleton, is a
tire shortage tends to has its right to protection under farmer and has been active in
increase car theft, and the law, but that right, like the tate civic affaires f o r several
rights of all in a democracy, is years. He is a member of the
cost of repairing dam­ qualified
and relative. It must state board of higher education.
age is larger because of always be superseded by the He said that within a few days
“right” of the peo­ he would release an itinerary of
Labor and material short constitutional
ple of the United States— the speaking swing througout the
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state.
general welfare.”
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age.
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Th doorway to the human
heart—I think it is like one of
those fascinating glass doors that
swing open as you pass the hid­
den light 1 think that only from
the depths of our own desire to
understand, desire to think self­
lessly, can we meet in perfect
communion the nunds of others.
If we go up to them with pre­
conceived prejudices, with in­
stinctive dislike, we will not pass
the light The door will not open
—and no outer key will unlock
| senes and to replace equipment
no longer safe in operation."
Many Ashland residents bv
this time have learned the trick
o f detecting t i r e punctures
through the comparative air loss
system. But those who do not are
told that any passenger car tire
that is 3 pounds below the lowest
of its running mates can be sus­
pected of having a puncture and
any truck tire that is 5 pounds
below may have a puncture.
Get »1 U r »3 • “« •• >•
CHRI8TMAK savings — I"
vest la WAR BONDS. Kr< p
un BAUBINO TH E ATTACK
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Truck Buyers
Must Meet War
Work Requirement
IT t THf TMPHONl RUSH.
Every night thousands of service
men and women dash to the near­
est telephones to talk with families
and friends at home. Most of the
Long Distance calls from camps and
naval stations are crowded Into a
few short hours.
Democratic Candidate
Makes Statement
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Open The Door
High School Test Plan
Final Action Ready
C O R V A L L IS —Oreg o n
w ill
have a high school testing pro­
“The door to the human heart gram, related to college entrance,
can be opened only from the in­ comparable to that developed in
side.’ ’
. . Ohio under the leadership of Ray
I found that sentence tucked G . Wood, recognized testing spe­
away at the bottom of the page cialist, if a plan drawn by the
of the magazine I was reading high school relations committee
on the train. I tore it out and of the state system of higher edu­
tucked it away for safekeeping— cation is approved by the second­
for through that doorway I could ary school executives in their
see so many vistas.
October conference.
The plan has just been approv­
ed by the state board of higher
education which provided an ap­
propriation to start the program
contingent upon the acceptance
of the plan by the state’s high
I school leaders.
Dean E. B. Lemon, chairman o’
the high school relations commit­
tee, says the program contains
• three main features. One calls
for a general test for high school
seniors applying for state board
tuition scholarships, rather than
basing selection entirely on high
school record and recommenda­
tions.
A second provision is for a
Mrs. Hays
subject-matter test in basic fields
to be given at the end of the jun­
ior year to those contemplating
college, thus giving time to cor­
rect deficiencies that may ap­
pear. A third feature is a general
ability test to measure capacity
and adaptability for college train
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and a Nation at W ar
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Astoria, The Dalle«. Spring-
field and Enterprise held first
places in their respective popula­
tion groups of the 1944 Oregon
Cities Traffic Safety contest at
the end of the first seven months
of this year, Secretary of State
Bob F arrell disclosed today.
In the first division, Astoria
stepped into first place while
Bend and Klamath Falls, long­
time holders of top honors in this
division, dropped to lower dos I-
tlons, In second place was Med-
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